All-white Acoma Jar with Corrugated Design [SOLD]

Marie Z. Chino was certainly one of the Acoma potters who made particularly important contributions to the art of pottery making in the period following World War II. Chino was making pottery as early as the 1920s. Some of her pieces were among the prizewinners at the first Southwest Indian Fair in 1922.

Chino is considered one of the significant ceramicists at Acoma and was the matriarch of a very talented family of potters. She was one of the women who was inspirational in the movement to revive the use of ancient Mimbres designs on contemporary Acoma pottery.

The corrugations on the upper half of the jar are reminiscent of prehistoric corrugated utilitarian wares.  Chino took the process a step further in that she fitted the corrugated rows of clay with an intricate design.  The jar is all white clay, the lower portion stone polished.  It is signed M. Z. Chino Acoma, NM on the underside.

Condition: very good condition

Recommended Reading: Acoma & Laguna Pottery by Rick Dillingham.  This book is currently not available from Adobe Gallery

Provenance: from a gentleman in Albuquerque