Santa Clara Pueblo Stone Polished Wedding Vessel [SOLD]

Margaret Tafoya (1904 - 2001) Maria Margarita Tafoya - Corn Blossom is a name all collectors of twentieth century pueblo pottery know very well. She and her family were and are major potters of blackware pottery. Margaret is associated with having made very large vessels, but she also made smaller items as well.  This stone-polished black wedding vessel would be among the smaller pottery Margaret made. It is totally without decoration yet is stunningly beautiful in its plainness. Sometimes, decorations can detract from a pottery vessel’s beauty.

Condition: this Santa Clara Pueblo Stone Polished Wedding Vessel is in very good condition with some minor surface abrasions, but not sufficient to mar the beauty of the vessel

Provenance: from the collection of a client from New Jersey

Recommended Reading:  Born of Fire: The Pottery of Margaret Tafoya by Charles S. King

Photo of Margaret Tafoya from unknown source.