Lot 75
  • 75

A Santa Ana Polychrome jar

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

circa 1830, the thick walled vessel with concave base, tall rounded sides and tapering rim, painted over a worn tan slip in red and black, with a series of leaves, trefoils and arches separated by diagonal and vertical stripes, flanked by parallel bands, and surmounted by a frieze of scalloped arches.

Provenance

Sotheby's New York, November 1989, lot 83

Literature

David Deroche, "Monumental Miniatures: The Saul and Marsha Stanoff Collection," Tribal Arts, 32, Autumn, 2003,  p. 62, fig. 4