Blackware Pottery Figurine

Discussion in 'Pottery, Glass, and Porcelain' started by kardinalisimo, Apr 14, 2015.

  1. kardinalisimo

    kardinalisimo Well-Known Member

    Any help with figuring the origin?
    Thanks
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  2. silverthwait

    silverthwait Well-Known Member

    Excellent competition for "The Scream."
     
  3. Messilane

    Messilane Well-Known Member

  4. DanielD

    DanielD Member

    Hello,

    Thats a nice and unique piece. It looks Mexican by the incised colored in pattern. I have seen a lot of smaller Mexican clay pieces with that kind of decoration and smooth polished surface. I hope that helps.

    Daniel
     
  5. kardinalisimo

    kardinalisimo Well-Known Member

    I also think that it could be Mexican or Southwestern. The face is not very traditional and indeed it is a good candidate for Scream character :)
     
  6. silverthwait

    silverthwait Well-Known Member

    Kardinal -- truly you could furnish a "weird" house all by yourself. That thing gives me the creepy-crawlies! It looks as if it could sit on the mantel... And beseech the heavens...

    I'd even take that gravy pitcher of Bev's over your moon-faced critter!

    :)
     
  7. lauragarnet

    lauragarnet Well-Known Member

    Found two with the same kind of faces.
    I think your lady is probably missing a corn grinding apparatus.
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    Barro Negro Oaxaca MADONNA AND CHILD Figurine Signed Mexico
    $2,499.99 AMAZING Barro Negro Figurine signed: "Hecho a Mano Teotihuacan Edo Mex. Pedro S.G."
    https://www.etsy.com/listing/223290453/barro-negro-oaxaca-madonna-and-child

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    The area around Tzintzuntzan in the Mexican state of Michoacán is famed for it's distinctive pottery. The burnished clay figures below are handmade by a small group of artisans on the shores of lake Patzcuaro who specialise in "barro negro", similar to that found in the state of Oaxaca. Height of Archer approx. 40cm. £43.95 (approx. $64.38)
    https://www.hammocks.co.uk/mexican-pottery.htm
     
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  8. Gayle DeGregori

    Gayle DeGregori New Member

    These black clay figures (same face, style) are by Manuel Felguerez (b. 1928, in Zacatecas, Mexico), a well-known Mexican abstract artist and sculptor.
     
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