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Zia storage jar

A three-color Zia storage jar features white slip with black and red painted decoration.
A Zia storage jar with black and red painted decoration.
A Zia storage jar painted black and red set into two bands.
A three-color Zia storage jar features white slip with black and red painted decoration.
A Zia storage jar with black and red painted decoration.
A Zia storage jar painted black and red set into two bands.
Artist

Reyes Galvan

Date

c. 1895

Medium

Ceramic

Object Type

Pottery

Dimensions

17 3/4 x 20 in. (45.1 x 50.8 cm)

Collecting Area

Native American Pottery

Credit Line

The Vilcek Collection

Accession Number

VF2019.02.19

Copyright

© The Vilcek Foundation

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bird ceramic cloud New Mexico pottery rainbow bands Zia
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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 three-color Zia storage jar features white slip with black and red painted decoration.
A Zia storage jar with black and red painted decoration.
A Zia storage jar painted black and red set into two bands.
A three-color Zia storage jar features white slip with black and red painted decoration.
A Zia storage jar with black and red painted decoration.
A Zia storage jar painted black and red set into two bands.

About the Object

This three-color Zia storage jar features white slip with black and red painted decoration. The surface decoration of this rotund jar is set into two bands. The neck decoration includes connected patterns of red triangles and capped black triangles with either cloud motifs or rain lines. The body is separated by a black framing line and includes a bold red double rainbow band. The rainbow band, large hachures, upright black triangles, and zigzagging patterns of triangles possibly signify rain. Below the rainbow band rests a Zia-style bird with its talons on the stems of berry plants.

 

Additional Information

The Pueblo of Zia, or Tsi-ya, is an Indigenous nation located in north-central New Mexico. The Pueblo community carry on their living culture through the continuation of their traditions, artistic expressions, agriculture, and livestock raising.

Unknown Artist;
Private Collection, Santa Fe, NM;
The Ruthling Collection, Santa Fe, NM, c. 1955;
[The Owings Gallery, Santa Fe, NM;
Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection, New York, NY, 2012-2019, (2012.11.01);

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).

O’Hern, John. “Modern Manor,” American Fine Art Magazine, September/October 2013, ill. p. 63.

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