Girardo Mora Teña
Width - 3 inches
Height - 5.25 inches
Weight - 5 ounces
Artist Girardo Mora Teña is the master craftsman behind this pottery. This is a Wedding Vessel made with a gracefully curved handle connecting two nearly round openings. Señor Teña's work covers a wide spectrum of creativity and design. Also, his work has been difficult to acquire, but I have it here!
His creation of this art is very time consuming. He harvests his own clay in the nearby Sierra Madre Mountains. The dye for the glaze is obtained from local plants and stone and soil. The pottery is bathed in symbols and shapes first used in the Chihuahua Casas Grandes region one thousand years ago. This is an old art form in the New World.
These Wedding Vases are used in pre-wedding ceremonies, and these ceremonies vary from one Latin American country to another. There is much more to detail about this than I can write here. But there is very interesting reading all over the internet.
Paquime impressions of feathers adorn both the spouts. Sacred triangles are everywhere. For a small piece such as this, there is an amazing amount of detail. Remember, always keep liquids out of this pottery, and pick it up by the sides, never by the handle.
This pottery is new and is fresh and has never been privately owned. It comes with a pottery ring to sit on. The Artists signature is on the bottom.
And know with confidence that I hand select each piece for sale and put each piece through a series of tests to make sure it is the highest grade pottery from the artists.