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Catalog Number

CAS 0541-0015   CAS 0541-0015; Plate
Category Culinary Items; Pottery
Object Name Plate
Culture San Ildefonso Pueblo
Global Region North America
Country USA
State/Prov./Dist. New Mexico
County Santa Fe
Other Geographic Data San Ildefonso Pueblo
Maker's Name Maria Martinez (1887-1980), Julian Martinez (1885-1943)
Date of Manufacture ca. 1921
Collection Name N/A
Materials Clay; Natural clay slip-paint
Description Round shallow dinner plate whose interior and exterior are scraped very smooth, coated with a slip, and highly burnished; Four large contiguous matte gray triangles that are pendant from the rim, form a negative 4-petal floral-like design, with most of the plate completely undecorated; Each of the painted triangles along the rim has a negative circle in it, and each of the negative floral-like petals has a pair of stacked triangles painted on it; Plate was reduction fired to yield a black-on-black design; Signature “Marie” is incised in script on base.
Dimensions (cm) Height = 3.1, Max Diam = 24.6