Canteen Item Number: 2013.64.8 from the Brooklyn Museum
Description
Polychrome pottery canteen with quail and plant design on the flat side centered inside a large flower. Hilda is the sister of Robert Tenorio, the noted potter from Santa Domingo) and she learned pottery from him. Initially Hilda and Arthur made the pots and Robert deocrated however within two years Arthur was doing all of the painting. They used natural clays, and the Rocky Mountain bee plant (wild sopinach) and honey to make their black color and thus achieve the soft glowing tones.
Credit Line
Gift of Joan and Sanford Krotenberg
Inscribed
Inscribed on bottom: illegible
Item History
- Made by Arthur Tenorio Coriz and Hilda Tenorio Coriz between 1980 and 1989
What
Who
- Creator
- Arthur Tenorio Coriz and Hilda Tenorio Coriz
Where
- Holding Institution
- Brooklyn Museum
When
- Creation Date
- between 1980 and 1989
Other
- Classification
- Vessel