Special Value Offer: Santa Clara Polished Red Pitcher [SOLD]

Special Value Offer: We have been authorized to reduce the price from $450 to a new price of $350.

Residents of Santa Fe were enchanted with their nearby Native residents of Santa Clara Pueblo, only 20 miles north of the Capitol city. Many Santa Feans decorated their homes with functional pueblo pottery items, such as candlesticks, table lamps, salt and pepper shakers, napkin holders, etc. These items added a soft touch to otherwise rather sparse interiors of homes during the Great Depression of the 1930s.  This trend continued into the 1960s.

This stone-polished red-slipped pitcher is typical of items made for sale.  It was not signed with a potter's name.

Condition: original condition

Provenance: from the collection of Katherine H. Rust

Recommended Reading: Collections of Southwestern Pottery: Candlesticks to Canteens, Frogs to Figurines by Allan Hayes