SANTA CLARA BLACKWARE POT- STELLA CHAVARRIA

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SANTA CLARA BLACKWARE POT- STELLA CHAVARRIA - LIKE NEW

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Sold Date: 04/15/2007
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Ethnic, Folk & Native American Art

Beautiful Santa Clara blackware pot by award winning artist, Stella Chavarria. This is a beautiful pot. The carved design features a traditional Avanyu. The Avanyu is known for guarding and protecting water, rivers and streams on the Pueblo. It has a beautiful smooth polished finish. It measures about 4" wide and about 5" tall. This is an older pot, I believe. I bought it from a retailer that I have known for years and it had been part of his wife's collection before she passed away. It is in excellent condition. I am not a retailer. Please check my feedback. I only list very nice quality Native American items from my personal collection. Thanks for looking and please, check out my other items !

ABOUT THE ARTIST: Stella Naranjo Chavarria is the daughter of the famed Santa Clara potter, Teresita Naranjo. Stella was born in 1939 and has been actively potting since 1955. Stella has been exhibiting her work since 1974. She learned potting from watching her mother Teresita, who is one of the shining lights in Santa Clara pottery. Stella incorporates most of her mother's traditional designs and those of her grandmother, Christina Naranjo. Stella pots full time and makes small to medium sized carved pots. Her carving and polishing is outstanding.
Although Stella's work is reminiscent of her mother and grandmother's, she does have her own style. Stella still forms her pottery in the traditional Tewa way...that is that the pot is formed from the clay found on tribal lands. The pot must then be hand shaped by coiling and the pottery must be fired in an open-air outdoor fire pit using only wood or manure as fuel. Manure is used to smother the fire at the last stage of firing, and it is this technique that causes the pottery to turn black.