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Laguna Acoma Eye Dazzler Jar by Melissa C. Antonio

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 300.00 USD
Laguna Acoma Eye Dazzler Jar by Melissa C. Antonio
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From the Nick & Suzanne Nicholas Collection. Laguna Acoma Eye Dazzler Jar by Melissa C. Antonio, signed on bottom by artist ''C. Antonio Laguna, NM,'' measures 8.5'' x 5.75'', Melissa Antonio, from a recognized Acoma family, specializes in designs which use simple geometric figures arranged into exceedingly complex designs. Here is one of her pieces where she uses a design made up of simple black and white lines and shapes of exquisite detail. Melissa uses traditional methods of making her pottery, digs the clay herself, coils and smoothes the pot, makes her own paints, paints the designs with a yucca brush, however, she does fire in a commercial type kiln. You'd think that she used some sort of geometric machine, her patterns are so precise. However, she just ''eyeballs'' the design, draws the horizontal lines and then the vertical lines and creates the patterns by filling in appropriate squares. She uses the term ''olla'' to describe this shape. A term picked up from the Spanish, olla means a water container. These shapes are patterned after the ollas used by the Acoma women in past centuries to carry water to their dwellings on the top of the mesa at Acoma. Many Acoma ollas will have a slightly concave bottom, which gave the container better balance when carried atop their heads.