Large Polished and Carved Red Jar [SOLD]

Lu Ann Tafoya, a daughter of Margaret Tafoya, certainly inherited the talent to produce beautifully sculpted jars with outrageously burnished surfaces. She has made jars almost three feet tall, a feat not easily accomplished. Her grandmother, Sara Fina Tafoya, was a masterful potter, as was her mother, Margaret Tafoya, who, in turn, passed on this artistic gene to nine children and numerous grandchildren.

LuAnn has been a consistent award winner every year since 1980 and the ribbons keep coming in deservedly.  She is a master potter and has been recognized as such by judges and collectors.  Her burnishing is unequal, forms are well balanced, and designs executed to precision.

The carved design on this Santa Clara Pueblo jar would qualify for the word "excellent" in any one's opinion.  It is inconceivable that a better burnishing could be accomplished by any potter.  The cream slip in the carved depressions was put on without the slightest slip of the brush onto the red slip.  There is nothing anyone could say negatively about this pottery jar.

Condition: new

Recommended Reading:  Pueblo Indian Pottery: 750 Artist Biographies, C. 1800-Present by Gregory and Angie Schaaf

Provenance: from the potter