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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;verybrad, post: 35651, member: 37&quot;]The bowl with the spider is interesting both aesthetically and historically. I have been researching the potter and have found that he was one of the original Mata Ortiz potters and probably taught the more famous Juan Quezada as well as many of the other potters in the village. Juan Quezada went on to develop some of the polychrome techniques used by the village and was no doubt very talented but was not entirely responsible for the village pottery renaissance as was originally told. </p><p><br /></p><p>As is typical is such incidents, proximity, promotion, and jealousies led to fame for one but not the other. New research is showing that a small group of potters initially worked together to create the pottery business in Mata Ortiz. Turns out, some of them lived on the wrong side of the arroyo and were initially overlooked by the American promoters that came down to buy pottery. </p><p><br /></p><p>An interesting side note to all this is that the whole pottery industry down there grew somewhat out of the crackdown on selling antique tomb raided pots. Many in the village participated in the sale and smuggling of old pots. When this became too dangerous, they began making reproductions and sold them to the Americans who were often unaware of their provenance. These pots eventually became recognized for the works of art that they are and, as they say, the rest is history. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you are interested in reading more ......</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.readperiodicals.com/201204/2758749991.html%20/%20ixzz3ODeqQDLN" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.readperiodicals.com/201204/2758749991.html%20/%20ixzz3ODeqQDLN" rel="nofollow">http://www.readperiodicals.com/201204/2758749991.html / ixzz3ODeqQDLN</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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