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SKU: 260929-71

San Ildefonso Pueblo Black Pottery Plate By Blue Corn

$1,270.00

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Mid/Late 20th Century

1" H x 8.0625" L x 7.125" W

Hand Coiled Black on Black Plate with a Feather Motif Design Signed Blue Corn on the Bottom

In Very Good Condition

Blue Corn (c. 1920/1921–1999) was a prominent San Ildefonso Pueblo potter from New Mexico, known for traditional black-on-black (blackware), redware, and especially her innovative revival of finely polished polychrome (cream/whiteware) pottery. She learned pottery from her grandmother as a young child. Maria Martinez’s sister gave her the name “Blue Corn” during a traditional San Ildefonso naming ceremony. She married Santiago “Sandy” Calabaza; they raised ten children. He assisted with carving, painting, and design until his death in 1972, after which their son Joseph helped. During World War II she worked as a housecleaner in Los Alamos for physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Condition: Very Good

Tribe: San Ildefonso

Year Range: 1950 - 1975

Region: Southwest

Dimensions: 1 in8.06 in7.13 in

Category: Pottery - Plates

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