Vintage (1977) Very Rare Black-on-Black Incised Avanyu Wedding Vase by Palilta for Sale

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Vintage (1977) Very Rare Black-on-Black Incised Avanyu Wedding Vase by Palilta For Sale

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Vintage (1977) Very Rare Black-on-Black Incised Avanyu Wedding Vase by Palilta:
$335.00

Vintage (1977) Very Rare Black-on-Black Wedding Vase with Incised Avanyu Water Serpent by Pablita:

We obtained our glossy black-on-black Santa Clara 2-spouted wedding vase with a twisted handle and a precisely carved Avanyu (water serpent) from master potter Pablita Tafoya Chavarria (1914-1979) at the 1977 Eight Northern Pueblos Art Fair. Our highly polished wedding vase is an excellent example of Pablita’s rare and sought-after work featuring the deeply carved Avanyu, the plumed serpent, a water serpent, that has occupied a place of great importance within the culture of the Puebloan Indians of the American Southwest. Puebloans pray that Avanyu will bless them with life-giving sustenance. Pabilta gathered her clay locally for creating her traditional hand coiled pottery. She coiled, shaped, carved, and polished this vase by hand, and fired it in an oxygen-reducing outdoor pit creating the lovely black patina. Burnished black pottery from Santa Clara Pueblo is among the most well-known Native American pottery and very collectible. It measures 6 1/4” high and 4” wide (spout to spout). Pablita began making carved blackware in 1930, and she became especially known for the use of Avanyu on wedding vases and other vessels.

Artist: Pablita Tafoya Chavarria

Origin: Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico

Date: 1979

Signed: Pablita Santa Clara New Mexico

Size: 6 1/4” high and 4” wide (spout to spout)