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Curran, Dolores – Large Water with Feather, Avanyu, and Butterfly Designs
3"w x 3.75"h
$ 1,600.00
This is a spectacular and fully designed water jar by Dolores Curran. Before she began making her carved pieces, she was well known for her delicately painted buff-on-red pottery. The jar is a large piece of her pottery, highly polished red, and painted with buff clay for the design. Amazingly, she would paint each piece up to five times to get the color of the matte-painted areas deep and consistent enough! This jar has square sides and a short neck. The neck of the jar has two rows of feathers and an avanyu near the top of the shoulder. Around the sides are triangular shaped butterfly wings and sun designs. The piece is complex and fully painted! Not only does it take multiple layers of clay to paint the designs, but all the design work must be done before firing. Over the years, Dolores mostly made painted miniatures due to the time-consuming nature of the painting. The jar is signed, “Dolores Curran”. It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration or repair.
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This is a spectacular and fully designed water jar by Dolores Curran. Before she began making her carved pieces, she was well known for her delicately painted buff-on-red pottery. The jar is a large piece of her pottery, highly polished red, and painted with buff clay for the design. Amazingly, she would paint each piece up to five times to get the color of the matte-painted areas deep and consistent enough! This jar has square sides and a short neck. The neck of the jar has two rows of feathers and an avanyu near the top of the shoulder. Around the sides are triangular shaped butterfly wings and sun designs. The piece is complex and fully painted! Not only does it take multiple layers of clay to paint the designs, but all the design work must be done before firing. Over the years, Dolores mostly made painted miniatures due to the time-consuming nature of the painting. The jar is signed, “Dolores Curran”. It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration or repair.
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Curran, Dolores (b. 1954)
