Tomasita Montoya Vintage Santa Clara Pueblo Handmade Pot with Etched Design (JM14)
Vintage handmade polished clay pot with a heavily etched triangular design. Signed "Tomasita Montoya."
Tomasita Reyes Montoya was born into Ohkay Owingeh in February 1899 and passed on in May 1978. She became of the seven original potters of the Ohkay Owingeh pottery revival in the 1930s. She was active as a potter from the early 1930s until she died. She mostly made incised polychrome redware bowls, jars and vases. Some of those included fine line designs. She also made some micaceous jars and bowls and used micaceous clays to decorate some of her incised pots.
By the early 1930s, most arts and crafts at Ohkay Owingeh had almost died out. In the early 1930s a group of eight women came together to try to revive something. At first they started with embroidery. Then they learned about some pre-contact pottery that had been found in a dig on the west side of the Rio Grande on Ohkay Owingeh land. From that pottery those women distilled a form and style for the making of original Ohkay Owingeh pottery (pre-contact with the Spanish). They named it Potsuwi'i, after the ancient pueblo where it had first been found.
DETAILS
Artist: Tomasita Reyes Montoya, Santa Clara Pueblo
Size: 4" high x 4 1/2" diameter
Condition: from a private collection, vintage - very good condition
JM14
Vintage handmade polished clay pot with a heavily etched triangular design. Signed "Tomasita Montoya."
Tomasita Reyes Montoya was born into Ohkay Owingeh in February 1899 and passed on in May 1978. She became of the seven original potters of the Ohkay Owingeh pottery revival in the 1930s. She was active as a potter from the early 1930s until she died. She mostly made incised polychrome redware bowls, jars and vases. Some of those included fine line designs. She also made some micaceous jars and bowls and used micaceous clays to decorate some of her incised pots.
By the early 1930s, most arts and crafts at Ohkay Owingeh had almost died out. In the early 1930s a group of eight women came together to try to revive something. At first they started with embroidery. Then they learned about some pre-contact pottery that had been found in a dig on the west side of the Rio Grande on Ohkay Owingeh land. From that pottery those women distilled a form and style for the making of original Ohkay Owingeh pottery (pre-contact with the Spanish). They named it Potsuwi'i, after the ancient pueblo where it had first been found.
DETAILS
Artist: Tomasita Reyes Montoya, Santa Clara Pueblo
Size: 4" high x 4 1/2" diameter
Condition: from a private collection, vintage - very good condition
JM14
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