Delores Juanico #31321

$1,400.00

Delores is one of the finest miniaturist artists working today. She can do large bowls and jars, and then she can scale it down to miniature size. Still doing everything in the traditional style, paints, and pigments, coiling the clay and firing outdoors, it is a pleasure to represent her work. Fewer and fewer Acoma artists still fire outdoors, but Delores’s are always fired in that manner.

We have never had a single two tone piece from Delores. They have all been multi polychrome painted work. When I was with her talking about the various techniques involved in her work, I really was drawn to this two-tone mini water jar. She explained that the patter is fro the 1960’s and represents, rain, lightning and clouds. The fired dark pigments have a deep brown tone to them – not black. That is extremely visually attractive. Like eggshell, when you hold it in your hands, it is magnificent. Signed on the bottom: D.Juanico, Acoma New Mexico 1960’s with a corn symbol- Delores always indicates from which time period her specific designs originated.

3 1/2″ high by 3 3/4″ wide

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Delores Juanico

Acoma

Delores Juanico is a daughter of Marie S. Juanico (1937 – ) who was her mentor. Marie learned pottery principals from her mother, Delores Sanchez, who lived to the age of 103. Delores carries on the tradition from her grandmother and mother of making the finest Acoma pottery. Her construction is traditional to Acoma pottery and the pottery walls are amazingly thin and consistent throughout. The design is painted to absolute perfection. Each line is thin and precise, and the application of the fill-in paint is consistent in texture. She certainly is among the top of today’s Acoma potters.

When Delores does her painting, she is often recreating design elements she has researched. She specializes in miniature versions of 19th century potteries. On the bottom of the piece, she puts the date of the original pattern she has seen on an earlier pot with its estimated date of creation. What a great tradition to follow and continue.

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