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Late 20th Century
2.9375" x 5.5" D
Hand Coiled from Black on Black with a Glossy Finish Signed Cornelia Martinez
From a Private Colorado Collection
In Very Good Condition
A San Ildephonso Pueblo pottery bowl By Cornelia Martinez is a traditional hand-coiled and high-polished piece from the Tewa-speaking San Ildefonso Pueblo in northern New Mexico. This pueblo is renowned for its pottery tradition, especially the innovative black-on black ware popularized by Maria Martinez and her husband Julian in the early 20th century.
Cornelia Martinez belongs to a later generation in the extended Martinez family of potters at San Ildefonso. She is the daughter of Lupita Martinez (b. 1918) and Anselmo Martinez (b. 1909), and granddaughter of Louis Martinez. She is also the sister of several other potters, including Francis, Pauline (b. 1950), Adelaido, Elias, and Timothy Martinez. While not as internationally famous as Maria Martinez (the matriarch who revived and elevated Pueblo pottery), Cornelia continues the community's traditional techniques of gathering local clay, hand-coiling vessels without a wheel, polishing with stones for a high sheen, and firing in open pits (often using reduction methods for blackware effects).
Condition:
Very Good
Tribe:
San Ildefonso
Year Range:
1975 - 2000
Region:
Mexico - Central and South America
Dimensions:
2.94 in5.5 in
Category:
Pottery Bowls and Jars Post 1940
