1950s Scarce Vintage INDIAN HILLS Pottery Colorado PITCHER Jug WILLARD SPENCE

Description

Rare and fabulous vintage pitcher by Willard Spence, Indian Hills Pottery, Nateso Pueblo, Colorado, 1949–1953, the light tan clay body of distinctive tapered bulbous shape with exaggerated curved neck and integral pinched handle, glazed in varying mottled tones of green and light brown, 8-1/2" tall, marked "Indian Hills Pottery, Colorado, Spence Original." In excellent, perfectly preserved condition, with no cracks, chips, crazing, or staining.
One of the rarest and most distinctive forms from this short-lived Colorado pottery, with a bold, unmistakable modernist aesthetic. Spence later wrote in detail about the development of his glazes in a book titled
The Potter's Odyssey.
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