Early San Ildefonso Pueblo pottery jar by Marianita Roybal

ca 1890

10.25" x 13" d

A large and graceful jar with superb polychrome design.

Marianita was an active potter from about 1860 to 1910. "Her jars were mostly with orange rims, designs around the neck, and a principal design of repeated forms around the middle. Her bases were often orange. Her jars, in the 1880s, were rounded with a 'full belly' and graceful, short necked rims. Her later jars would become more compressed with the belly of the jars pushed down and the necks more elongated." - Schaaf 2000