About this artwork
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Status
- On View, Gallery 136
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Department
- Arts of the Americas
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Artist
- Diego Romero
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Culture
- Pueblo De Cochiti
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Title
- Jar with Chongo
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Places
- New Mexico (Object made in), Pueblo of Cochiti (Artist's nationality:), United States (Object made in)
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Date
- 1998
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Medium
- Ceramic and pigment
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Inscriptions
- Signed bottom, top, incised in script: "Made by / d romero". Signed right side, top-edge, in gilt: "YELLOW BiRD MADE ME TURKY BOY PAiNTED ME". Inscribed recto, right-top, on paper, in black slip: "POPÉ THE TiTANiC / TEWA iS ABOUT TO / SiEGE SANTA-FE, / AS GOVERNER / OTERMÍN AND THE / COLONiSTS SEEK / REFUGE WiTH-iN / THE PALACE WALLS!"; inscribed recto, bottom-right, on cloud, in gilt: "LEST / TYRANNY / TRIUMPH!". Inscribed left side, bottom, on cloud, in white and black slip: "ZiPP!"; inscribed left side, top-middle, on cloud, in white and black slip: "POW!". Inscribed verso, bottom, on cloud, in white and black slip: "BANG!"; Inscribed right side, on cloud, in black slip: "AH".
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Dimensions
- 43.4 × 35.9 × 36 cm (17 1/8 × 14 3/16 × 14 3/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Mrs. Leonard S. Florsheim, Jr. Fund
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Reference Number
- 2019.214
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