Adobe Gallery Blog

Those who knew Garnet Pavatea are aware that for most of her career, she fired her pottery in the traditional outdoor manner.  Later, in the last decade of her life, she had both lower legs amputated from the results of diabetes and was then unable to fire outdoors.  She purchased an electric kiln and fired her pots in that manner.  This jar is one of her earlier (circa 1950s) and displays evidence of an outdoor firing.  There is a fire cloud on one side that is faint but discernible.

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