Ceramic pitcher with a handle projecting from the rim to the body, fully decorated with a black and white checkerboard pattern.
Pitcher
Pitcher
Pitcher
Pitcher
Pitcher
Pitcher
Ceramic pitcher with a handle projecting from the rim to the body, fully decorated with a black and white checkerboard pattern.
Pitcher
Pitcher
Pitcher
Pitcher
Pitcher
Pitcher

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Pitcher,

ca. 1890–1910

Pueblo
2021-277

Information

Title
Pitcher
Dates

ca. 1890–1910

Medium
Ceramic with white and black slip-paint
Dimensions
h. 24 × diam. 19.1 cm (9 7/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Alfred L. Bush in memory of Grace Lansing Lambert
Object Number
2021-277
Place Made

North America, United States, New Mexico, Kewa (Santo Domingo) Pueblo, Rio Grande

Culture
Native American, Pueblo, Kewa
Type
ceramics, vessels (containers)
Materials
slip, ceramic
Subject
patterns (design elements), jugs, pitchers, Geometric

[Bob Ward Trading Post, Santa Fe (NM), by the 1970s]; purchased by Grace Lansing Lambert (1899-1993), 1970s; donated to Alfred L. Bush (1933-2023), by 1993; donated to the Princeton University Art Museum in memory of Grace Lansing Lambert, 2021.

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