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~Mata Ortiz Pottery~ 28/oct-4 ~Signed by Blanca Olivas~ Fine Quality A Wonderful Piece of Art at a Wonderful Price What you see here you see in Museums Mata Ortiz Art is Hand Made & Hand Painted please bid confidently because what your are biding is for a Unique piece of Art Bid Ebay bid Confidently ~Dimensions~ Tall 6 Inches Wide 7 Inches Family Olivas Manuel Olivas is not often considered as a potter from Mata Ortiz . In fact, he has lived on the outskirts of Casas Grandes overlooking Paquime for more than fifty years. For forty years or more he has been making replicas of prehistoric Casas Grandes pottery and guiding tourists to archaeological sites in the surrounding areas. A number of dealers belive that some of the pottery passed off as prehistoric Casas Grandes pottery maybe , in fact , have been made by Manuel Olivas . Several pottery dealers believe that Manuel Olivas was the father of the pottery revival near Casas Grandes years before Juan Quezada began working with clay. Manuel Olivas past away in 2006 , Blanca Olivas Father how she still dedicated in maintaining the spirit of her father in her Pots. Here you can find some Pottery Mady By Manuel Olivas that Blanca Olivas still keep for Sale. Mata Ortiz Village In a Small Village. at the end of a long dirt road , magic happens every day. It is an earthly magic, worked by men, women and children at kitchen tables and in backyards all over town . and its elements are very simple. A handful of mud A few stick and stones and human hairs A pile of coy manure or sometimes cottonwood bark, a splash of kerosene , a quick fire. But out fo the smoke and ashes comes something greater than the sum of these homely parts: beautiful pottery. Seventy - Five miles due south of the "boot hell " jog in the New Mexico Border , in the heart of the Casas Grandes region of the Mexican state of Chihuahua , the master potters of Mata Ortiz turn dirt into art. The history of Mata Ortiz pottery begins in the early 1950, when Juan left school as a boy and wen to work with a burro, gatherig firewood in the hills. It was a traditional job, fit for a hero of folklore: the young Pancho Villa also collected kindling on a burro , But poverty and hard labor are facts of life in Mata Ortiz and significant factors in its true story. As the sixth of eleven children in a family hard-pressed to survive, Juan never had quite enough to eat, so he also foraged for wild foods , such as honey , acorns , rattlesnake meat. and edible succulents. What he did not eat , he sold. (Resourcefulness is another important factor in this story. ) And scattered through the countryside he also found prehistoric potsherds . often elaborately painted. in red and black. To a boy who covered his schoolwork with doodles , who even painted his bedroom wall pictures (later erasing them with kerosene and staring over) and who secretly dreamed of being an artist. "Querer es poder" says seventeen - year old Reyna Patricia Rodriguez. "Desire is Power" Info Orders Please contact us if your would like any Order Info. at or send a Ebay Message with your Question and we get back to you. Shipping Orders We usually send our products between 3 days by UPS , FEDEX, or USPS. In delicate Items we do not Combine Shipping due that they break easily so please ask before biding if your are planing in combining shipping. read more

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