Polychrome Jar

Arts of the Americas

c. 1770

Possibly Cochiti, Kiua polychrome
Possibly Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico, United States

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Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Cochiti (Kʾúutìimʾé)
Title: Polychrome Jar
Place: New Mexico (Object made in)
Date: c. 1770
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: 40.6 × 48.2 cm (16 × 19 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Charles and Marjorie Benton
Reference Number: 2012.582
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Larry Frank and Francis H. Harlow, Historic Pottery of the Pueblo Indians, 1600-1880 (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1974), 81, cat. 61.
Alfred Dittert, Jr., and Fred Plog, Generations in Clay: Pueblo Pottery of the American Southwest, exh. cat. (Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press in cooperation with American Federation of Arts, 1980), 55, fig. 55.
Richard Townsend with contributions by Elizabeth Pope, Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago, (New Haven and London: Art Institute of Chicago distributed by Yale University Press), 62–63, cat. 30.

Flagstaff, AZ, Generations in Clay: Pueblo Pottery of the American Southwest (organized by American Federation of Arts, New York), July 1980–Oct. 1980, cat. fig. 55; Richmond, VA, Museum of Fine Arts, Nov. 18, 1980–Jan. 4, 1981; Madison, WI, Elvehjem Museum of Art [Chazen Museum of Art], University of Wisconsin-Madison, Feb. 8–Mar. 29, 1981; Evanston, IL, Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, May 13–June 28, 1981; Santa Ana, CA, Bowers Museum, closed Sept. 30, 1981; Midland, MI, Midland Center for the Arts, Nov. 1–29, 1981; Seattle Art Museum, Jan. 21–Mar. 14, 1982; Phoenix, AZ, Heard Museum, May–June 6, 1982.

Marie Chabot, NM, by 1974 [published as Coll. Marie Chabot in Frank and Harlow, 1974, 81, cat. 61]. Marjorie and Charles Benton (1931–2015), Evanston, IL, from 1970s [according to note written by R. Townsend in curatorial object file; published as Marjorie and Charles Benton Collection in Dittert and Plog 1980, 55, fig. 55; on loan to the AIC from Nov. 1, 2010]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2012.

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