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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 7235317, member: 45&quot;]As to &quot;R. Galvan,&quot; the signature has been around for years, but information about who made the pots is hard to find.&nbsp; A web site featuring a Mexican &quot;R. Galvan&quot; potter used to be on the web, but has been taken down.</p><p><br /></p><p>What is known, is &quot;R. Galvan&quot; pottery is made in Mexico, and usually is a copy of, (or &quot;influenced by&quot;) Acoma and other southwest Indian pottery styles.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It is rare to find the original &quot;made in Mexico&quot; sticker still attached, however.&nbsp; It is almost always “missing,” but you can usually see where it was.</p><p><br /></p><p>R. Galvan pottery is not from Mata Ortiz, since that pottery is all hand-formed and fired outdoors, and R. Galvan pots are usually made from a mold and fired in a kiln.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Researching&quot; it on the web is risky, unless you can find a photo with the original sticker, since misinformation about R. Galvan pottery is more likely.&nbsp; He, or those using his name, indicate it may be a factory, since some of the &quot;signatures&quot; don&#039;t look like they were written by the same hand.&nbsp; Also, there is a lot of R.Galvan pottery on the market, which continues to create problems for sellers not familiar with it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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