Pitcher
about 1890
Object PlaceSan Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico
Medium/TechniqueEarthenware with painted decoration
DimensionsHeight x diameter: 27.3 × 20.3 cm (10 3/4 × 8 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Estate of Bertram J. Malenka
Accession number2019.667
On View
Not on viewClassificationsCeramics
Collections
Provenance1894, possibly sold in Española, New Mexico [see note 1]. March 29, 2008, anonymous sale, Caddigan Auctioneers, Inc., Dedham, MA, to Bertram J. Malenka (b. 1923 – d. 2018) and Ruth S. Malenka (b. 1926 – d. 2015), Belmont, MA; 2019, gift of the estate of Bertram J. Malenka to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 19, 2019)
NOTES: Annotated in pencil on bottom “Pueblo, Española, Jan. 4, 1894.”
NOTES: Annotated in pencil on bottom “Pueblo, Española, Jan. 4, 1894.”
400–1350 AD
150 B.C.–350 A.D.
about 1740
1780–90; central decoration added later