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Article: Maria, pottery, and money: when you buy a work of art, remember that it should be preserved and admired regardless of its value, as one "Antiques Roadshow" appraiser writes.(BUYING AND SELLING)(Maria Martinez)
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- Antiques Roadshow Insider
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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Two summers ago, when I arrived in St. Paul, Minn., to work an Antiques Roadshow event, I figured I'd see some pieces made by Maria Martinez, the American Indian potter from San Ildefonso pueblo near Santa Fe, N.M. At the Tribal Art table at practically every Antiques Roadshow location, we often see a half-dozen or more pots made by Maria. But I never expected to see anything like the two large vases that turned up in St. Paul. The owner of the vases said his mother received them as gifts in 1957 while on a road trip in New Mexico. The pots date to the late 1920s or early 1930s and are worth $45,000-$50,000.
Maria Martinez is without question the best known of ...
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