Santo Domingo Pueblo Polychrome Stew Bowl [SOLD]

This Santo Domingo Pueblo polychrome stew bowl was traditionally used as a food bowl and dates to the 1940s most likely. There is evidence of considerable use as a food bowl. There is no significant damage, but the interior slip is mostly worn away from use.

It has the traditional rag-wiped bentonite slip, very slight evidence of a previous black rim around the top and black framing lines separating the design panel from the rim and underbody. There is a very old rim chip and some abrasion to the black painted design, all evidence of many decades of use.

Provenance: From the estate of Transcendental artist Florence Pierce of Albuquerque who passed away in 2007 at the age of 89. She was best known for luminescent paintings made of pigmented resins on reflective surfaces. Her interest in abstraction began in the 1930s when she was an associate of the Transcendental Painting Group. The New York Times called her