$1,825
Artist: Juanita Fragua
Style: Wedding Vasel
Pueblo: Jemez, NM
Period: Vintage
Dimensions: 16.5″ H x 8″ W
Juanita Fragua is a potter from Jemez Pueblo. She decided to be a potter at a time when the Jemez pottery tradition had essentially collapsed. Movement toward a revival was happening but no one shape, form or design had emerged yet that was “Jemez.” So Juanita felt free to exercise her creativity and she made many different shapes and forms and used many different designs and methods of decorating them.
More About the ArtistThe art of Jemez Pottery making was revived in the 1800s after being lost during the Spanish conquest of the American Southwest. After being developed in the traditional style, the pottery has been enhanced over the generations to include several wonderful clay colors and traditional shapes. Jemez Pueblo Pottery has also been influenced by later generations by polishing and incising the pottery, fine line painting, inlaid stonework and storyteller figures.
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