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Jar

ca. 1450–1500
Not on view
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.
The works now called Sikyatki pottery, created by ancestors of the present-day Hopi people, are thin- walled, high-fired, and meticulously polished. Sikyatki potters established elegant new shapes with a pale yellow surface bearing abstract representations in black, orange, red, and umber. The subject matter includes avian symbols and various emblematic designs representing earthly or cosmic phenomena. This jar was discovered in the mid-twentieth century under a rock ledge, intact and showing no signs of use.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Jar
  • Artist: Unrecorded Sikyatki artist
  • Date: ca. 1450–1500
  • Geography: United States, Arizona
  • Culture: Sikyatki
  • Medium: Clay, pigment
  • Dimensions: H. 9 × Diam. 14 7/8 in. (22.9 × 37.8 cm)
  • Classification: Ceramics-Vessels
  • Credit Line: Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY (T0770)
  • Curatorial Department: The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing