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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 6265656, member: 45&quot;]Sorry I couldn&#039;t reply sooner.&nbsp; We&#039;ve had daily power outages, and only occasional cell phone service, which has seriously interfered with communication!</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s an unusual piece, both because it is blackware, and signed Tesuque.&nbsp; Tesuque Pueblo, although it was known as one of the best &quot;painted pottery&quot; producers in the 18th and 19th centuries, never was known for making decorated black pottery like this (a style associated with Maria and Julian Martinez at nearby San Ildefonso Pueblo, in the 20th century.) There were a handful of early Tesuque potters who made blackware, but not necessarily black-on-black decorated.&nbsp; Catherine Vigil was known for her polychrome pottery, but there is no record that she ever made black-on-black pottery. </p><p><br /></p><p>The way this is signed, indicates it probably wasn&#039;t made before the l940s, and the style resembles more San Ildefonso than Santa Clara, so this was probably Eusebia Padilla&#039;s attempt to &quot;revive&quot; the reputation that Tesuque pottery had before the Tesuque Rain Gods took over, by making a serious traditional art piece. </p><p><br /></p><p>Tesuque is very close to San Ildefonso, so perhaps she had a friend or relative there there who influenced her, or maybe even she made and fired it there (it&#039;s a rather specialized type of firing to turn it black, and not usually attempted by someone inexperienced in firing).&nbsp; But because she was Tesuque, and not San Ildefonso, she naturally signed it as &quot;Tesuque.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>There are a couple potters with the last name &quot;Padilla&quot; listed in Schaaf&#039;s &quot;Pueblo Indian Pottery, 750 Artist Biographies,&quot; but no Eusebia.&nbsp; Names, alone, are often complicated though, since potters might use their husband&#039;s last name, while he may be from another tribe.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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