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San Ildefonso Blackware Plate

Barbara Gonzales

San Ildefonso Blackware Plate, Pottery by Barbara Gonzales

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Title
San Ildefonso Blackware Plate
Artist
Barbara Gonzales
Medium
Polished and painted blackware pottery
Size
7 1/2" diameter
Signed
"TAHN-MOO-WHE" on back side with cloud symbol below
Date
1998
Condition
Excellent to very good. Small 3/16" x 1/8" chip on rim at back
Design
A stylized avanyu encircles the plate, along with scalloped clouds.
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About The San Ildefonso Blackware Plate

This luscious plate is a perfect marriage of form and design. The serpent occupies the plate's interior apron in stark contrast to its polished center. These two decorative motifs convey an elegance that is black on black pottery's strength.

About Barbara Gonzales
Barbara Pino Gonzales of San Ildefonso was born in 1947. She is the oldest great-granddaughter of Maria Martinez. who gave Barbara the name Tahn-Moo-Whe (Sunbeam). Barbara learned the traditional ways to create black-on-black pottery from Maria as well as her maternal grandparents, Santana and Adam Martinez. Along with Popovi Da. Barbara began experimenting with duotone pots with inlaid turquoise. She has become known for her intricately incised black. red and polychrome bowls with her "good luck" spider motif. Barbara Pino Gonzales is listed in the book Pueblo Indian Pottery by Gregory Schaaf.
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