A SANTA CLARA POLYCHROME SEED JAR

BY BELEN TAPIA (1914-1999)

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A SANTA CLARA POLYCHROME SEED JAR
BY BELEN TAPIA (1914-1999)
Of classic rounded form, painted in a highly polished red slip, decorated in matte salmon-orange, blue-grey and white with a band enclosing an Avanayu water serpent surmounted by a band of feather motifs at the rim, signed on the base Belen Tapia Santa Clara Pue.
6½in. (16.5cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

"Belen Tapia was...Margaret Tafoya's first cousin. She was one of the innovators of polychrome redware. Her second husband, Ernest Tapia helped her paint the beautiful redware pots," (Schaaf, 2000, p. 126).

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