Tenorio, Robert – Large Jar with Hummingbirds

9.25"w x 8.5"h

$ 650.00

This is a striking large jar by Robert Tenorio.  The jar is painted with wild spinach (black) and red and copper colored clay slips.  Around the sloping neck of the jar is a feather pattern and one section with two hummingbirds.  Each bird is painted in an older style and one has a red clay slip for the body, while the other is more copper in color. Below the shoulder is a cloud pattern. The shape of the jar is classic with the wide shoulder and the sloping neck.  Look inside the jar and you can see a hand print impressed into the clay surrounded by a micaceous clay.  Note as well that the jar has a “spirit line” or a break in the painted line around the rim.  This goes back to historic Kewa pottery when the artist would use the spirit line to release their spirit or connection from the vessel.  The jar is signed on the bottom in the clay, “Robert Tenorio, Kewa”.