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Late 20th Century
1.625" H x 4.625" L x 3" W
Hand Coiled Black on White Turtle with a Painted Rooster Motif Design on the Back of His Shell Signed Viril Ortez Cochiti Pueblo
From a Private Colorado Collection
In Very Good Condition
Virgil Ortiz (often misspelled as “Viril Ortez” or similar) is a well-known contemporary Cochiti Pueblo artist from New Mexico, renowned for traditional and innovative pottery, figurative ceramics, fashion, and multimedia work that draws on Cochiti traditions and themes like the 1680 Pueblo Revolt. virgilortiz.com He comes from a family of distinguished Cochiti potters: his grandmother Laurencita Herrera and mother Seferina Ortiz were highly regarded figurative potters, and his father Guadalupe Ortiz (1929–2015) also made pottery later in life. Virgil learned traditional Cochiti techniques (hand-coiling local clay, natural slips and pigments such as wild spinach black, outdoor firing) from family members and is known for both classic forms and edgy, futuristic reinterpretations of historic Cochiti “monos” (figurative pottery).
Condition:
Very Good
Tribe:
Cochiti
Year Range:
1975 - 2000
Region:
Southwest
Dimensions:
1.63 in4.63 in3 in
Category:
Pottery - Turtle Collection
