Doña Rosa Signed Pottery Vase and More
Item Details
A signed pottery vase by world renowned potter Doña Rosa (Mexican, d. 1980) of San Bartolo Coyotepec, Oaxaca, Mexico. This grouping offers a vase with applied floral motifs in a round shape with a wide rimmed mouth, in the traditional burnished, wood fired solid black clay. The burnishing has given the piece a glossy, almost silvery appearance, and it is signed to the underside. There is also another pottery vase included in a similar finish, it features a smaller size in a round shape, narrow neck, and a slightly wider rimmed mouth, and marked ‘Mexico’ to the underside. Lastly is a beaded garland featuring the same black clay, as well as shapes of a flower, birds, fish, and spheres, and goes with out any visible markings.
Doña Rosa is known for her modern development of the use of black clay, “barro negro,” in Mexican pottery, and using a burnishing technique to compress the clay platelets so that the ware is exceptionally strong, glossy and has a rich, deep onyx black color. Her work is collected and prized among aficionados of the Mexican pottery tradition, and her family still operates her workshop in its original location. Please see the link below for a video of Doña Rosa making a vessel on her rudimentary potter’s “wheel.”
Condition
- minor markings throughout; signature is not legible
Dimensions
- measurement of largest piece
Item #
17LOU222-038
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