<img width="640" height="640" src="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1980-21-6-700x700.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="The globular body of the pot rests upon a flat base. The swelling sides have a slightly angled shoulder; the body tapers toward a circular mouth. The exterior is painted in a traditional geometric line pattern of a repeating series of interlocking continuous lines arranged in contiguous triangles." style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1980-21-6-700x700.jpg 700w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1980-21-6-150x150.jpg 150w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1980-21-6-300x300.jpg 300w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1980-21-6-640x640.jpg 640w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1980-21-6-170x170.jpg 170w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1980-21-6.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-attachment-id="28784" data-permalink="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2018/03/05/pottery-of-precision-2/1980-21-6-2/" data-orig-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1980-21-6.jpg" data-orig-size="1024,1024" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="1980-21-6" data-image-description="<p>The globular body of the pot rests upon a flat base. The swelling sides have a slightly angled shoulder; the body tapers toward a circular mouth. The exterior is painted in a traditional geometric line pattern of a repeating series of interlocking continuous lines arranged in contiguous triangles.</p>" data-medium-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1980-21-6-300x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1980-21-6-700x700.jpg" />In celebration of Women’s History Month, March Object of the Day posts highlight women designers in the collection. Today’s blog post was written by Rebekah Pollock and originally published November 19, 2016. Lucy Martin Lewis learned to make pottery from her great-Aunt and other women living in Sky City, a remote three hundred foot high sandstone...
