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Details
A SAN ILDEFONSO BLACKWARE CEREMONIAL WATER BOWL
with small flat base and rounded sides, the thick walls painted in matte against a highly polish slip, the interior, with encircling cloud design below the rim, enclosing a lady bug and four tadpoles in the basin, the exterior, with a thin ticked band below the rim and four checkered squares with verticle lines below, signed on the base, Blue Corn, San Ildefonso Pueblo
Diameter: 11¼ in. (28.6 cm.)
with small flat base and rounded sides, the thick walls painted in matte against a highly polish slip, the interior, with encircling cloud design below the rim, enclosing a lady bug and four tadpoles in the basin, the exterior, with a thin ticked band below the rim and four checkered squares with verticle lines below, signed on the base, Blue Corn, San Ildefonso Pueblo
Diameter: 11¼ in. (28.6 cm.)
Further details
This lot is accompanied by a note written by Blue Corn, explaining the iconography on the bowl and stating, "This is a ceremonial water bowl -- used for naming a new born baby -- very scared (sic)."