Pottery Casas Grandes Mexico Mint condition "Gaby"

Description

This item was made in the 1980s. Mint condition. Never displayed. This is a piece signed "Gaby", and she is the maker of this item, since some of her husband's pottery is signed Cesar Dominguez. This has been in a box since the 80's when it was bought from Casas Grandes, Mexico.
Cesar Dominguez Alvarado and his wife, Gabriela “Gaby” Almeida de  Dominguez, work on pottery as a team.  Gaby builds and polishes and Cesar sands, paints and fires.  The couple is best known for their polychrome designs.  They learned pottery making from Cesar's brother Jaime Dominguez in the 1980’3, when they still lived in their native Barrio Americano in Mata Ortiz.
Their work appeared in the University of New Mexico Art Museum’s show in 1995 and is often seen in regional ceramic shows in Casas Grandes.
“Mata Ortiz Pottery is a recreation of the Mogollon pottery style found at the historic sites of Casas Grandes in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. This ancient cultural tradition has traveled to us through the past by way of archaeological reclamation. Artists today have sought to recapture the beauty of this pottery and have developed that into the Mata Ortiz pottery style. ​ This style looks to not just recreate the aesthetics of the past, but to re-establish a bond to a cultural tradition that was almost lost to time. The Paquime pottery style could have been a mystery lost to the vast depths of history and time, but thanks to the work of dedicated artists and artistic researchers, it has been revived in our modern time.”(1)
His work appears and is recognized in The Many Faces of Mata Ortiz by Susan Lowell.
Provenance of this olla is available upon request.
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