Artist Media Series
Contemporary
King Galleries - Indian Market 2023
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Susan Folwell
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Jennifer Tafoya
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Historic
$ 550.00
Madeline Naranjo creates beautifully carved and polished pottery. Each piece is pinch-built, carved, stone polished, and traditionally fired. She is one of the few Santa Clara potters who create pinch pottery instead of coil-built vessels. This jar has a round body and a square neck. It is fully carved with a double avanyu (water serpent) design. One of the avanyu is polished and the other is matte. The are intertwined around the entire jar. The tongue of the polished one becomes a lightning design around the neck of the jar. Her matte areas are sanded and perfectly smooth so that there are no indentations or areas where the matte might make a shadow. Her designs are always innovative and beautifully executed. The jar is signed on the bottom, “Madeline Naranjo”.