RARE FACE CASAS GRANDES BOWL CIRCA 1200 AD-EX J. H. SHARP/CHRISTIAN RUB ESTATES
RARE "FACE" CASAS GRANDES BOWL CIRCA 1200 AD-EX J. SHARP/CHRISTIAN RUB ESTATES Fantastic Painting & Iconography on this STUNNING pot - NO RESERVE! Click here for our other listings this week! A stunning Casas Grandes pot circa 1200 AD - Has been a treasured part of a private collection for 15 years! Measurements: 9" diameter at top opening, 5.25" height x 11 width. PROVENANCE: From the estate of the legendary Taos, New Mexico artist Joseph Henry Sharp, who in turn gave them to his good friend and character actor Christian Rub who was the voice and inspiration for Geppetto from Disney's original "Pinocchio" movie and was featured in more than 100 movies from the 1910s-1950s. Has been part of a private collection ever since. Bold, quirky geometrical "face" design done in terra cotta and black. Please Note: The holes in this pot are purposeful, although there is slight cracking around them.
GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC - COA available upon request. Joseph Henry Sharp (September 27, 1859 August 29, 1953) was an American painter and a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists.
He painted American Indian portraits and cultural life, as well as Western landscapes. President Theodore Roosevelt commissioned him to paint the portraits of 200 Native American warriors who survived the Battle of the Little Bighorn. While working on this project, Sharp lived on land of the Crow Agency, Montana, where he built Absarokee Hut in 1905. Phoebe Hearst (mother of William Randolph Hearst) bought 80 of Sharp's paintings of Native Americans. This enabled him to quit teaching and devote himself to painting.
Hearst commissioned an additional 75 portraits to include members of every major Great Plains tribe. The entire collection was eventually donated to the University of California, Berkeley. Over his lifetime, Sharp produced around 10,500 works of art, including oil paintings, etchings, monotypes, pastels, and watercolors. Of these works, fully 7,800 are of Native American subjects, including 3,200 portraits.
He was a historian of the West as well as a painter, and helped to preserve the record of a way of life that was changing. Christian Rub (April 13, 1886 April 14, 1956) was known as a character actor from the late 1910s to the early 1950s, and was featured in more than 100 movies. He was born in Passau, Bavaria, Germany. His first appearance was in the 1919 movie The Belle of New York.
" Rub was the visual basis and voice of Mister Geppetto in the animated Disney film "Pinocchio (1940). Casas Grandes (Spanish for Great Houses; also known as Paquimé) is an archaeological site approximately 200 miles (320 km) south of US Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument ruins and was built by the Mogollon people.
It is the contemporary name given to a pre-Columbian archaeological zone and its central site, located in the modern-day Mexican state of Chihuahua. Settlement began after 1130 CE, and the community was abandoned approximately 1450 CE. Cases Grandes is regarded as one of the most significant Mogollon archaeological zones in the northwestern Mexico region. The valley and region have been inhabited by indigenous groups for thousands of years. Click here to view our many Estate Auctions this week.
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