1988.90.FA Tonto polychrome mug with handle (Southwest, Salado)

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

NOTES

Salado, 1350–1450 (noted on TMS), updated by KJones on 03/14/16, 07/27/16, and 07/28/16.
Noted in TMS, Notes / Text Entries, Other (see remarks) -- Provenance Note: Elizabeth M. and Duncan E. Boeckman are the anonymous donors. The main source for this provenance is Acquisition Record (dated November 08, 1988, copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Object File, Confidential).

Catalogue essays

Foundation for the Arts

Artist/designers

Cultures

Salado (Pre-Columbian Southwestern North American culture or style): AAT: 300386833

Southwestern North American styles (Pre-Columbian): AAT: 300016920

Geography

The Southwest United States

Southwest (general region): TGN: 4010660

Process/materials

ceramic (material): AAT: 300235507

clay: AAT: 300010439

paint (coating): AAT: 300015029

slip (clay): AAT: 300010459

slip glaze: AAT: 300015110

glazing (coating): AAT: 300053914

coiling (pottery technique): AAT: 300053903

modeling (forming): AAT: 300053130

burnishing (polishing): AAT: 300053869

Historical periods

Individuals

Subject terms

vessels (containers): AAT: 300193015

mugs (cups): AAT: 300043248

cups (drinking vessels): AAT: 300043202

handles: AAT: 300024927

ritual vessels: AAT: 300265801

funerary objects: AAT: 300234126

black (color): AAT: 300130920

cream (color): AAT: 300266242

white (color): AAT: 300129784

red (color): AAT: 300126225

figures (representations): AAT: 300189808

animals (Animalia kingdom): AAT: 300249395

birds (motifs): AAT: 300375751

birds (animals): AAT: 300266506

abstract: AAT: 300108127

abstraction: AAT: 300056508

geometric abstraction: AAT: 300056509

geometric motifs: AAT: 300009764

geometric patterns: AAT: 300165213

geometric shape: AAT: 300263819

lines (geometric concept): AAT: 300056279

zigzags (geometric patterns): AAT: 300165028

frets (pattern): AAT: 300010155

fretwork: AAT: 300165040

stepped frets (meanders (patterns)/motifs): AAT: 300010171

squares (geometric figures): AAT: 300055637

dots (geometric motif): AAT: 300010145

scrolls (spirals/motifs): AAT: 300010094

spirals (geometric figures): AAT: 300163114

crosses (motifs): AAT: 300010044

repetition (artistic concept): AAT: 300400861

polychrome: AAT: 300252261

Roosevelt Redware (ceramic type / Southwestern North American style): DMA

Roosevelt (inhabited place): TGN: 2007255

Tonto Polychrome (ceramic type / Southwestern North American style): DMA

Tonto Village (inhabited place): TGN: 2725281

cylindrical (geometric shape): AAT: 300378890

cylinders (geometric figures): AAT: 300163037

RELATED OBJECTS

PROVENANCE

n.d.: Chris Sellser [1]

n.d.: Roy Oswalt [1]

n.d.: Dennis Lyon [1]

From 1988: Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation for the Arts Collection, anonymous gift [1], [2], [3], [4]

[1] The main source for this provenance is Collections Worksheet (n.d., copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Object File, Confidential). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.

[2] The main source for this provenance is Acquisition Record (dated November 08, 1988, copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Object File, Confidential). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.

[3] The Foundation for the Arts is a non-profit corporation created as a title-holding entity to serve the people of Dallas but to operate independently of the City. The Dallas Museum of Art (at its own cost) is responsible for the care, storage, insurance, conservation and maintenance of the collection, and agrees to maintain the highest museum standards in the management and handling of the Foundation’s collection. The title to all works of art purchased or otherwise acquired by the Foundation for the Arts is retained by the Foundation.

[4] See Collections Records Digital Object File.

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