Margaret Tafoya Auction Prices and Value Guide

Margaret Tafoya auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 226 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Margaret Tafoya auction prices: quick answer

Margaret Tafoya auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Margaret Tafoya
Source records
226
Market update
2026-02-16

Margaret Tafoya market snapshot

Margaret Tafoya shows solid auction liquidity with 105 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,250. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 16 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-02-04.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (15.6% · 14 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (81.1% · 73 sales)
  • $10,000+ (3.3% · 3 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$1,500
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
16
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2026-02-04

Artist context

About Margaret Tafoya

Margaret Tafoya portrait
Margaret Tafoya · see-source-page · Source

Born

1904

Died

2001

Also known as

Maria Margarita Tafoya

Margaret Tafoya (1904–2001) was a traditional pottery artist of Santa Clara Pueblo. Authority links in the collected source pack connect her identity to Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, GND, and ISNI. A collected biographical summary also describes her as a matriarch of Santa Clara Pueblo potters, placing her within a community pottery tradition rather than a conventional European-style art movement. Collectors are most likely to encounter her name on attributed pottery or in reference material about Santa Clara Pueblo ceramics. Maria Margarita Tafoya appears as an alternate name form. The available evidence distinguishes the artist and her broad field, but it does not document recurring vessel forms, surface treatments, motifs, signatures, or career periods. Those details should be verified from the individual object and stronger institutional records before publication or appraisal.

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Common works and media

Pottery is the only work type securely supported by the collected sources. The pack does not provide enough object-level evidence to identify particular vessel forms, decorative subjects, techniques, editions, or recurring series. Individual works should therefore be described from direct examination and documented provenance rather than assumptions based on the artist’s name.

Market and appraisal context

Market review should begin with identity and attribution: the available authority records distinguish Margaret Tafoya as a Santa Clara Pueblo pottery artist, while the Appraisily input indicates an auction-record set associated with her name. This source pack does not expose the underlying lot descriptions or results, so it cannot support claims about price trends, recurring forms, rarity, condition effects, provenance premiums, or signature practices. For an appraisal, object-level evidence should be compared with relevant public sales by checking attribution language, sale date, realized price, work type, dimensions, condition, and provenance when those fields are available. These are comparison inputs, not a forecast or guarantee of value.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Santa Clara Pueblo pottery

Value drivers

  1. Secure attribution to Margaret Tafoya using stable identity records and object-level evidence
  2. Comparable public auction records, including auction-house attribution, sale date, and realized price when available

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected pack does not expose object-level auction descriptions or results, so it does not support artist-specific claims about price trends, rarity, recurring forms, dimensions, condition effects, provenance premiums, or signature practices.
  • The Appraisily artist page was rate-limited during collection. The input reports 226 records, but those records could not be examined individually in this research pass.
  • Market comparisons should not be treated as price predictions or guarantees.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, thin source quality.

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Data basis

This page is built from Appraisily's public auction market index. Private transactions, incomplete sale feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.

LLM-readable Markdown summary for Margaret Tafoya

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Margaret Tafoya worth?

Comparable public auction sales are the best starting point, but final value depends on the specific artwork, condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence.

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