An Acoma Polychrome Pictorial Jar

circa 1890, with small concave base, tall bulging body and tapering neck, painted over a worn chalky white slip in black, red and orange, with sweeping concentric arches, each centering a parrot in a walking posture, and enclosed by bisected leaves, areas of connected bars in the alternating fields.

Sotheby's New York, November 1989, lot 94