Mata Ortiz Pottery Effigy Long Horned Sheep Ram Jerardo Tena Master Potter Art for Sale

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Mata Ortiz Pottery Effigy Long Horned Sheep Ram Jerardo Tena Master Potter Art For Sale

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Mata Ortiz Pottery Effigy Long Horned Sheep Ram Jerardo Tena Master Potter Art:
$658.00

Mata Ortiz PotteryArtist: Master Potter Jerardo Tena Sandoval and Norma Hernandez Tena - Second Generation - Museum Quality Hand MadeHand PaintedThis gorgeous large very highly hand polished and intricate hand painted piece in a beautiful ram design is true museum quality. The red and black Paquime' detail truly high lights the shape of this unique ram. Awesome detail.Jerardo Tena Sandoval and Norma Hernandez de Tena are a husband-and-wife team who make pottery in the small village of Mata Ortiz. They specialize in figures and effigies. Amazing quality and detail.Jerardo learned to make pots from his mother, Sofia Sandoval de Tena, a couple of decades ago. He makes the pieces and does most of the painting while his wife helps by sanding and polishing. As Jerardo got older the more, they are into making figures.With most couples who make pottery in Mata Ortiz, both do just as much work in making the pieces, but the wife signs the smaller pieces, and the husband signs the larger pieces. This piece is signed by both.This piece is 100% handmade - hand painted and carved in the coil pinch method.Artist signed on the bottom of piece.Piece is 7 Inches Tall x 9 Inches In Length x 5 Inches In DiameterNew - Never Displayed Piece. Piece will be boxed,and bubble wrapped and then put into another box with additional packing materials for very safe shipping to the piece new home and owner.MATA ORTIZ POTTERY STORY: Is a recreation of the Mogollon pottery found in and around the archeological site of Casas Grandes (Paquime') in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Named after the modern town of Mata Ortiz, which is near the archeological site, the style was propagated by Juan Quezada Celado. Quezada learned on his own to recreate this ancient pottery and then went on to update it. By the mid 1970's, Quezada was selling his pottery and teaching family and friends to make it and the pottery was able to penetrate the U.S. markets thanks to traders. By the 1990's, the pottery was being shown in museums and other cultural institutions and sold in fine galleries. The success of the pottery, which is sold for aesthetic rather than its utilitarian value, has brought the town of Mata Ortiz out of poverty, with most of its populations earning income from the industry, directly or indirectly.Be Sure To View All Photos Shown For Views Of The Beautiful Work.You Will Want To Add This Beauty Into Your Collection - Sure To Become One Of Your Families Heirloom PiecesInternational Buyers WelcomeAll Forms Of PayPal Payments AcceptedOur Studio Is Pet Free, Smoke Free, Very CleanWe Do Offer Combined Shipping Costs On Multiple Purchases. Please Message Me Prior To Paying For Combined Invoice.