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Cochiti storage jar

A Cochiti olla with floral designs, waterbird pictorials, and a rust bottom.
A three-color Cochiti polychrome olla features white slip with black and red painted decoration.
An oval Cochiti olla with white slip with black and red painted decoration.
An oval Cochiti jar with black and red painted decoration.
A Cochiti olla with floral designs, waterbird pictorials, and a rust bottom.
A three-color Cochiti polychrome olla features white slip with black and red painted decoration.
An oval Cochiti olla with white slip with black and red painted decoration.
An oval Cochiti jar with black and red painted decoration.
Artist

Unknown Artist

Date

1890-1900

Medium

Ceramic

Object Type

Pottery

Dimensions

18 1/2 x 17 in. (47 x 43.2 cm)

Collecting Area

Native American Pottery

Credit Line

The Vilcek Foundation

Accession Number

VF2016.01.03

Copyright

© The Vilcek Foundation

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Currently on loan

Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery is on view at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture from July 31, 2022 to May 29, 2023. The exhibition will open at the Vilcek Foundation on July 13, 2023.

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A Cochiti olla with floral designs, waterbird pictorials, and a rust bottom.
A three-color Cochiti polychrome olla features white slip with black and red painted decoration.
An oval Cochiti olla with white slip with black and red painted decoration.
An oval Cochiti jar with black and red painted decoration.
A Cochiti olla with floral designs, waterbird pictorials, and a rust bottom.
A three-color Cochiti polychrome olla features white slip with black and red painted decoration.
An oval Cochiti olla with white slip with black and red painted decoration.
An oval Cochiti jar with black and red painted decoration.

About the Object

This three-color Cochiti polychrome olla features white slip with black and red painted decoration. This great oval-shaped water jar is comprised of a high red base, neck pattern, and multiple panels of decoration. The main panel of discussion is a design that includes cloud, rain, lightning, and water-bird motifs. Throughout the landscape are cloud banks, with two of them sprouting above plant stems. Underneath the center cloud bank are rain lines (hachures) and crisscrossing rain lines to indicate lightning or rainstorms. A water-bird, or possibly a parrot, stands to the right.

 

Additional Information

The Pueblo of Cochiti, better known as Ko-Tyit, is an aboriginal homeland located in north central New Mexico. As a traditional nation, the Pueblo people maintain their way of life and continue to preserve their identity through the practice of their beliefs, cultivation of land, and inventive artistic expressions such as pottery.

Unknown Artist;
Gerald Peters Collection, Santa Fe, NM;
[Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM];

Santa Fe. Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery (July 30, 2022-May 29, 2023); New York. Vilcek Foundation and Metropolitan Museum of Art (July 13, 2023-June 2, 2024); Houston. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (October 27, 2024-January 19, 2025); St. Louis. St. Louis Art Museum (March 9-June 1, 2025).

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