Acoma Pueblo Polychrome Pottery Jar with Overall Checkerboard Pattern [SOLD]

This extraordinary tall cylindrical pottery jar from Acoma Pueblo was designed with a checkerboard pattern from top to bottom.  The vertical rectangular designs were each divided into three sections—upright orange rectangle, white triangles filled with fine lines, and a repeat of the orange rectangle.  The other square design is a white background with a pair of curved black triangles in a back-to-back position.  A jar with a similar pattern is in Rick Dillingham’s book Acoma & Laguna Pottery (page 164), for which he provides a date of ca. 1920-40.

The jar is unsigned, however, the original sales ticket from the Chimayo Trading Post in Espanola, New Mexico, states: “originally from Lewis Family c. 1930-40s.”  This obviously is a reference to the Lucy Lewis family.

Condition: this Acoma Pueblo Polychrome Pottery Jar with Overall Checkerboard Pattern is in excellent condition

Provenance: from the collection of a family from Georgia, the original and current owners, who purchased it in 1988 from the Chimayo Trading Post.

Reference: Dillingham, Rick. Acoma & Laguna Pottery

Relative Links: Acoma Pueblo, Contemporary Pottery