April 23, 2024
5.13â Tall Santa Clara Pottery Owl Effigy Pot Signed Margaret & Luther Gutierrez
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5.13â Tall Santa Clara Pottery Owl Effigy Pot Signed Margaret & Luther GutierrezGood condition with some rubbing to paint. See pictures for details as part of description.Measures:5.13â tall4.63â wide5.04â deepThis is a vintage beautiful larger example of a high quality hand coiled Santa Clara Native American Owl fetish /effigy pottery sculptural pot by award winning Santa Clara pottery artists Margaret and Luther Gutierrez, circa 1970s.Hallmarked by the famous Santa Clara potters.Margaret Gutierrez (born 1936) and Luther Gutierrez (1911-1987) were brother and sister potters from the Santa Clara Pueblo, NM. They continued their polychrome painting made famous by their parents Lela and Van Gutierrez. They began making pottery together in the 1960s.Margaret and Luther painted unique color combinations on their bowls, jars and wedding vases with designs including the Avanyu (water serpent), rain, clouds and lightning and sky bands. In the 1970s they began making their original polychrome caricatures of animals and other smaller figures. These were painted with the same pigments used on earlier pieces.
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