Naranjo, Nicolasa – 9″ Tall Wedding Vase with Avanyu (1970s)
$ 450.00
Nicolasa Naranjo was a daughter of potter Tomasita Tafoya Naranjo and a niece of Margaret Tafoya. She created a wide variety of pieces over the years of her pottery career, including polychrome pieces as well as black-on-black pottery. This wedding vase is fully polished and painted with a water serpent (avanyu) as the design. It is highly polished and even the inside of the spouts are polished! It was fired a dark black. It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration or repair. It is signed on the bottom in the clay, “Nicolasa”.
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Nicolasa Naranjo was a daughter of potter Tomasita Tafoya Naranjo and a niece of Margaret Tafoya. She created a wide variety of pieces over the years of her pottery career, including polychrome pieces as well as black-on-black pottery. This wedding vase is fully polished and painted with a water serpent (avanyu) as the design. It is highly polished and even the inside of the spouts are polished! It was fired a dark black. It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration or repair. It is signed on the bottom in the clay, “Nicolasa”.
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Naranjo, Nicolasa (1907-2002)
Nicolasa Naranjo was a daughter of potter Tomasita Tafoya Naranjo and a niece of Margaret Tafoya. It was Tomasita who taught Margaret how to make pottery. Nicolasa was known for her larger pottery, painted in the classic black-on-black style.