This Hopi Pueblo teapot has black linear slip designs on a sienna ground. The pot has a hand modeled form with knobbed lid and a large duck billed spout. The atmospheric black areas are called fire clouds and result from the pit-firing process.
Pueblo teapots are rare. Santa Fe dealers Jan Brooks and Lane Coulter searched for years to collect them. “Pueblo teapots are unusual because you only see them from the 1940s when tourist influences were at their peak. Lids are even more unusual. Pueblo potters would make pouring vessels on occasion, and they would pull a handle. But lids could too easily be broken or fall off. Much of this pottery had to be hauled to a trader for sale, and in that instance, a lid would be impractical.”