BLACK POTTERY by DONA ROSA PISCES DOUBLE FISH DESIGN
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Please check out this week's other listings! Thanks for taking a look! This is a super rare signed piece of Oaxaca Black Pottery made by Dona Rosa. I collected this piece on the same trip that I bought the rugs on back in 1973! I bought this piece and a few others from Dona Rosa's son! He was old...mid-seventies.....way back then. Dona Rosa is the potter who discovered the process necessary to turn the pieces black when t're fired. Credit for her accomplisments often go to the potters of our Southwest......but it was Dona Rosa who first made the black pottery that Oaxaca is now famous for! I have talked to two different museums about these pieces but they want me to donate them!!!!! I'm can't pay bills with a placard in a display case in some museum that says...."donated by".......so 's your chance to own a piece that's rarely seen today outside of a museum collection. The lines that make up the fishes scales appear white in the pictures taken with the flash. The incised carved lines of the decoration are applied after the surface of the pot is polished so they are actually dull black in color. The pictures taken without the flash are good representations of the true appearence of this rare piece. The condition is perfect......no dings or chips......considering the journies this piece has been on since I acquired it in 1973 that'
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