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Olla Pottery

Offered by: Jeffrey Tillou Antiques

Description
Olla Pottery
Pueblo or Zuni, mid 19th c.
Red earthenware clay, white clay slip, polychrome paint decoration.
Over-all in excellent condition with wear commensurate to age and use.
Pictorial Native American polychrome olla decorated with hand-painted butterfly and heartline deer figures with a raised rope-like scalloped molding adorning the outer top edge, formed with a slightly convex base.

The heartline deer motif originated in the Zuni Pueblo in western New Mexico during the 1860s and 1870s. The line symbolizes the life force of the animal or a prayer-pictographic invocation connected to hunting. Previously referred to as an antelope, the meaning of which was provided by John G. Bourke in 1881.

Dimensions: 6 ½” h., 9 ½” dia., 4" opening

Item ID: NA-SO

Price: $4500

More Information

Period:	19th Century
Creation Date:	Mid 19th Century
Styles / Movements:	Traditional
Dealer Reference #:	NA-SO
Incollect Reference #:	890146

Dimensions

H.	6.5 in;	Diam.	9.5 in;
H.	16.51 cm;	Diam.	24.13 cm;

Message from Seller:

Jeffrey Tillou Antiques was established in 1992. The three story historic building located “on the green” in Litchfield, features an extensive inventory of Americana from the 18th and early 19th centuries. Here you will find an extraordinary collection of furniture, folk art, weathervanes, sculpture, Oriental carpets, and related decorative pieces as well as distinctive European furniture and original works of art.

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