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Big Red Mata Ortiz Coiled Indian Pottery

Detailed:
9" tall, 8" wide
32 1/2" circumference
4 1/8" opening
signed Lupe Soto
a chip in lip - see photo

Amazing fine line details, an artistic wonder makes this pot imaginative and creative.

This hand-coiled, hand-painted and hand-fired Casa Grandes pot is a unique and traditional design. Hand-painted birds, animals and traditional geometric designs seem to jump off the pottery walls. Painting is still widely used to decorate pots in the Southwest. Potters make no measurements or sketches but paint designs free-hand.

Technically and aesthetically, Casas Grandes pottery equals or surpasses the work of the Indian potters of the American Southwest. It is made with clay from the mountains high above the village of Mata Ortiz, painted with human hair brushes and natural pigments (minerals and roots of plants). It is hand-formed, without the use of a potter's wheel, and is dung fired.

For centuries, the Indian peoples of the Southwest have fashioned pots from the native clay and baked them beneath the fiery desert sun. Today, we are proud to offer you this hand-etched, hand-coiled, black-on-red, clay pot. Each intricate line has been hand-painted into gorgeous clay by hand.

SKU	0186-PT
Weight	9.0 lb
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Price $224.00