Jar with Butterfly and Sityatki Inspired Designs

Artist:Grace Chapella

Medium: Ceramic, slip

Dates:1951–1960

Dimensions: 11 × 15 × 15 in. (27.9 × 38.1 × 38.1 cm)

Collections:

• Arts of the Americas

Exhibitions:

• Life, Death, and Transformation in the Americas

Accession Number: 87.107

Catalogue Description:
This huge water jar is shaped and painted in the Sityaki tradition. It has a white background with a ochre, beige, red and black butterfly design on the top shoulder and more Sityaki-style designs on the base. Condition: Good

Brooklyn Museum