Archuleta, Mary Ester – Open Bowl with Mountain Designs

7"w x 3.25"h

$ 850.00

Mary Ester Archuleta is the second youngest daughter of Margaret Tafoya.  While she no longer makes pottery, she was active in the 1970’s and 1980’s.  While much of her pottery was inspired by the incised San Juan style of pottery as she married into San Juan and lived there, she also made classic Santa Clara blackware.  This open bowl is fully polished on the inside and outside.  It is always more difficult to polish both the inside and outside of a bowl, as there is a greater risk for cracking with the added wet slip.  The outside has a carved band with mountain designs.  The bowl is very highly polished and fired a deep black.  It is signed on the bottom in the clay, “Mary E. Archuleta.  It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration or repair.