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Lot 307

A Polacca polychrome jar

6 – 7 June 2016, 11:00 PDT
San Francisco

Sold for US$8,125 inc. premium

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A Polacca polychrome jar

Attributed to Nampeyo, the three-lobed jar with triangular spirals below the rim, a band of stylized bird forms under that, and a hatchured zigzag meander at the bottom.
height 7 3/4in, diameter 12in

Footnotes

Provenance
The Collection of Thomas V. Keam, Tusayan Trading Post, Keam's Canyon, AZ. Included with the lot is a photo of Keam's parlor with this jar atop a table in front of the hearth, lower right-center, along with the copy of an 1892 letter from Keam to a client, a Mr. Baxter, regarding a shipment of pottery.

Illustrated
Struever, Martha H., 2001, p. 118

Compares Favorably
Schramm, David, American Indian Art magazine, Winter 2014, for the top two design bands on two other jars attributed to Nampeyo, pp. 56-57, ill. 1 and 2; and Autumn, 2013, for multi-lobed jars also attributed to Nampeyo, p. 69, ill. 2 and p. 71, ill. 5

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