Large Wide Flat Top Pottery Vessel [SOLD]

Rick Dillingham built his vessels in the traditional pueblo fashion of coils, not using a potter's wheel. He chose this most elemental form of construction, perhaps, because of his absolute love of pueblo pottery. His palette of colors soothes the visual senses without a shock to the system. One cannot simply look at his pottery, it demands to be held and caressed as the sensual object that it is.

The top of the vessel is glazed with color highlights of shades of light green, in an arrangement that produces a striking balance in asymmetry.  The jar is typical of Dillingham’s early works while he was attending the University of New Mexico. The top layer is a round relatively flat slab with a hole in the center.  The underside is comprised of strips of clay crisscrossed in an apple pie crust arrangement. 

This Large Wide Flat Top Pottery Vessel is signed on the underside and dated October 1975. At first glance, one might assume that some of the protrusions from the base that rise upward to the outside of the top layer have been broken off, however, that is not the case.  That is the way Dillingham constructed the vessel.

Condition: original condition

Recommended Reading:

Rick Dillingham 1952-1994: A Retrospective Exhibition by Author Unknown

Rick Dillingham: 1993 Distinguished Artist Award (Rotary Club of Santa Fe) by Suzanne Abel-Vidor, et al

Provenance: From the collection of a gentleman from Texas