Polychrome Acoma Jar with Parrots and Double Rainbow [SOLD]
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- Category: Modern
- Origin: Acoma Pueblo, Haak’u
- Medium: clay, pigment
- Size: 7-1/8” tall x 8-1/4” diameter
- Item # C3637F SOLD
Rose Chino and her sisters, Carrie Chino Charlie, Vera Chino Ely and Grace Chino, are daughters of Marie Z. Chino and all of them are exceptional potters, as was their mother. Rose’s pottery is in the collections of the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, Heard Museum in Phoenix, Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, and numerous private collections. She has won awards at Santa Fe Indian Market since 1975—one award was for "most creative design."
Rose Chino Garcia learned pottery making from her famous mother and has used some of her mother's designs, however, she has also been very creative in developing designs of her own, designs that have proven most successful as recognized by the Santa Fe Indian Market award mentioned above.
The Chino family produces mostly black-on-white pottery and occasionally some of them will make what is considered the hallmark of Acoma pottery—a polychrome design with parrots and undulating double rainbows as in this exquisite jar by Rose. The rainbows are each outlined in black and undulate over and under the parrots, which are not outlined. The parrots’ wings are floating above their bodies as if the birds were preparing for flight. The orange and black painted elements are strong in color that is even in consistency, hallmarks of an excellent potter.
Condition: excellent condition with only one spall spot over the entire vessel
Recommended Reading: Acoma & Laguna Pottery by Rick Dillingham. This book is currently not available from Adobe Gallery
Provenance: from the collection of a gentleman from Albuquerque
- Category: Modern
- Origin: Acoma Pueblo, Haak’u
- Medium: clay, pigment
- Size: 7-1/8” tall x 8-1/4” diameter
- Item # C3637F SOLD
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