Melon jar

Melon jar

about 1995
Artist
Nathan Youngblood, Santa Clara, 1954-
Culture
Santa Clara
Country
United States
Object
bowl
Medium
Clay and paint
Accession Number
2003.1288
Credit Line
Gift of Virginia Vogel Mattern

Nathan Youngblood (Santa Clara), Melon jar, about 1995. Clay and paint; 9 x 15 in. © Nathan Youngblood. Denver Art Museum: Gift of Virginia Vogel Mattern, 2003.1288 

Dimensions
height: 9 in, 22.8600 cm; diameter: 15 in, 38.1000 cm
Inscription
Signed "Nathan Youngblood"on bottom with an obscured symbol; carving near base: a serpentine?
Department
Native Arts
Collection
Indigenous Arts of North America
Known Provenance
Purchased 1999 from (Sotheby's) by Virginia Vogel Mattern; gifted 2003 to the Denver Art Museum