Vessel with Painted Motifs (olla)

Culture: Ancestral Puebloan
Date: c.1150–1300
Material: Ceramic with pigment
made in: United States, North and Central America
Classification: Ceramics, containers
Collection: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Current Location: On View, Gallery 113
Dimensions: 13 × 14 1/4 in. (33 × 36.2 cm)
Credit Line: Friends Endowment Fund
Rights: Public Domain
Object Number: 173:1981

- 1981
C. Frank Turley Jr., Mesa, AZ

1981 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from C. Frank Turley Jr. [1]

Notes:
[1] An invoice dated May 3, 1981 from C. Frank Turley Jr. to the Saint Louis Art Museum documents this purchase, listed as "Pre-historic Tularosa holla [sic, olla], black on red, with six-pointed star design" [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Acquisitions and Loans Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, June 10, 1981.

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