View Full Size Image of Carved and Polished Blackware Jar, Pottery by Stella Chavarria
This sensational pot sports an abundance of curvilinear design representing stylized wings.
(1939-2000) Daughter of the famed Santa Clara potter, Teresita Naranjo, Stella has been actively making pottery since 1955. She has been exhibiting her work since 1955. Christina Naranjo, another potter, was Stella's grandmother.
Stella is featured in Stephen Trimble's book Talking with the Clay in pages 46-47, in Allan Hayes Southwestern Pottery on page 128, in Lillian Peaster's Pueblo Pottery Family, in Rick Dillingham's Fourteen Families on page 228 and in Gregory Schaff's new book Pueblo Indian Pottery on page 17.