拍品 45
45
A SAN ILDEFONSO REDWARE BEAR
A SAN ILDEFONSO REDWARE BEAR

BY TONY DA (B. 1940)

细节
A SAN ILDEFONSO REDWARE BEAR
BY TONY DA (b. 1940)
In the form of a bear of highly stylized and attenuated form, painted with a highly polished red slip, decorated with an incised "heart-line" down each side and a pair of turquoise inset eyes, at top a stone "arrowhead," attached with six strands of melon shell heishi
13in. (33cm.) long

拍品专文

"In 1966, at the age of twenty-six, Tony Da moved to live with his grandmother, Maria Martinez and his great aunt, Clara Montoya. Tony had as his role models the premier pottery maker and one of the finest pottery polishers. His father, Popovi Da, was considered the great experimenter....Tony Da pushed farther...[his] famous duotone pottery bear fetishes were wrapped and inlayed with channel beading. He added a thin incised zigzag like a lightning bolt, tiny turquoise eyes and turquoise cabochons on the back of the bear," (Schaaf, 2000, p. 169).