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Folk Art: Folk Ceramics: Pot with Incised Decoration
Pot with Incised Decoration
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Pot with Incised Decoration
1990
Jimmy Wilson
fired and incised clay with piñon pitch
13 3/8 x 15 in. (34.0 x 38.1 cm) diam.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
1997.124.185
 

Jimmy Wilson decorates his pottery with horizontal bands of incised pattern. The geometric spirals and pyramids in this piece probably came from Navajo basketry and weaving. Wilson uses handmade colored slips to decorate his pottery, which fire to a mottled orange-brown finish.

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