Blackware Wedding Vase Item Number: 2013.64.1 from the Brooklyn Museum
Description
Classic wedding vase with incised water serpent (Avanyu) designs. Madeline Naranjo started potting in the 1930s. This work is made from red clay in the traditional hand coiled manner then stone polishedand carved before open firing it. Pots would remain red in the final color except she smothers the fire at the height of firing process to achieve black.
Signed
Signed: "Madeline Naranjo"
Credit Line
Gift of Joan and Sanford Krotenberg
Item History
- Made by Madeline Naranjo between 1970 and 1979
What
Who
- Creator
- Madeline Naranjo
Where
- Holding Institution
- Brooklyn Museum
When
- Creation Date
- between 1970 and 1979
Other
- Classification
- Vessel