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<p>[QUOTE="iPacific, post: 477247, member: 9337"]Yes, it looks like a modern artist. The shape looks too perfect to be hand-formed. An easy test is to place a finger in the seed hole and feel the inner surface. Cast items are smooth inside. Hand formed pots will have more irregularities and surface texture. Traditional Acoma pottery is usually on a white base, with black painted line work, often more geometric. With smaller areas of infill of red to yellow color. Most often with just one terracotta orange-red color, but some beautiful old ones with 5 colors, white, black, yellow, orange and dark red.</p><p>This pot is by someone borrowing imagery from other Native American traditions with turtle, bear and kokopeli. Nothing wrong with that, but it represents more than Acoma tradition. This pot took some time to do, paint the pot black, then scratch out the design. Better than average tourist souvenir. It is the kind you see at gift shops and not at established gallery venues. Often budding artists would bring their work to the huge Albuquerque Flea Market and I would expect one like this to have been asking $20-$50. You are paying for their decorative skills, not their pottery skills.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="iPacific, post: 477247, member: 9337"]Yes, it looks like a modern artist. The shape looks too perfect to be hand-formed. An easy test is to place a finger in the seed hole and feel the inner surface. Cast items are smooth inside. Hand formed pots will have more irregularities and surface texture. Traditional Acoma pottery is usually on a white base, with black painted line work, often more geometric. With smaller areas of infill of red to yellow color. Most often with just one terracotta orange-red color, but some beautiful old ones with 5 colors, white, black, yellow, orange and dark red. This pot is by someone borrowing imagery from other Native American traditions with turtle, bear and kokopeli. Nothing wrong with that, but it represents more than Acoma tradition. This pot took some time to do, paint the pot black, then scratch out the design. Better than average tourist souvenir. It is the kind you see at gift shops and not at established gallery venues. Often budding artists would bring their work to the huge Albuquerque Flea Market and I would expect one like this to have been asking $20-$50. You are paying for their decorative skills, not their pottery skills.[/QUOTE]
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