Jemez Pueblo Pictorial Terrace Rim Pottery Bowl by Marie Gachupin Romero [SOLD]

Jemez Pueblo artist Marie Gachupin Romero had been making pottery of the finest quality for over 50 years. This terrace rim bowl is unusual as her specialty was figurative pottery, primarily storytellers and nacimientos.

This Jemez Pueblo bowl with two terrace extensions above the rim was made by Marie G. Romero (1927-2007) at the specific request of the previous owner.  This person stated that the potter did not ordinarily make terrace rim bowls but did make this one at his special request.

The interior of the bowl was beautifully designed with pictorial elements of animals—a Zia bird with a red chest, a deer or antelope; and a bird with a white body.  On the interior of one terrace projection, there is a beautiful image of a Corn Maiden, illustrated with corn plants surrounding her body and a bowl into which fall corn pollen.

On the exterior of each terrace projection is a single corn plant with corn and pollen.  The base color of the interior and exterior of the bowl is a soft tan which was polished.  The bowl is signed Marie G. Romero Jemez.

Condition: this Jemez Pueblo Pictorial Terrace Rim Pottery Bowl by Marie Gachupin Romero is in excellent original condition

Provenance: from a resident of Taos, New Mexico, who obtained it from the original owner

Recommended Reading: Southern Pueblo Pottery: 2,000 Artist Biographies by Gregory Schaaf