Blackware Wedding Vase
Madeline Naranjo
Arts of the Americas
On View: American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, Trouble the Water
MEDIUM
Clay, pigment
DATES
1970s
SIGNATURE
Signed: "Madeline Naranjo"
ACCESSION NUMBER
2013.64.1
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Joan and Sanford Krotenberg
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Classic wedding vase with incised water serpent (Avanyu) designs. Madeline Naranjo started potting in the 1930s. This work is made from red clay in the traditional hand coiled manner then stone polished and carved before open firing it. Pots would remain red in the final color except she smothers the fire at the height of firing process to achieve black.
CAPTION
Madeline Naranjo (Kah’p’oo Owinge (Santa Clara Pueblo), 1916–2020). Blackware Wedding Vase, 1970s. Clay, pigment, 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (21.6 x 16.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Joan and Sanford Krotenberg, 2013.64.1. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.2013.64.1_view1.jpg)
IMAGE
overall,
CUR.2013.64.1_view1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2014
"CUR" at the beginning of an image file name means that the image was created by a curatorial staff member. These study images may be digital point-and-shoot photographs, when we don\'t yet have high-quality studio photography, or they may be scans of older negatives, slides, or photographic prints, providing historical documentation of the object.
RIGHTS STATEMENT
Creative Commons-BY
You may download and use Brooklyn Museum images of this three-dimensional work in accordance with a
Creative Commons license. Fair use, as understood under the United States Copyright Act, may also apply.
Please include caption information from this page and credit the Brooklyn Museum. If you need a high resolution file, please fill out our online
application form (charges apply).
For further information about copyright, we recommend resources at the
United States Library of Congress,
Cornell University,
Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums, and
Copyright Watch.
For more information about the Museum's rights project, including how rights types are assigned, please see our
blog posts on copyright.
If you have any information regarding this work and rights to it, please contact
copyright@brooklynmuseum.org.
RECORD COMPLETENESS
Not every record you will find here is complete. More information is available for some works than for others, and some entries have been updated more recently. Records are frequently reviewed and revised, and
we welcome any additional information you might have.
