Glendora Fragua #083205

$700.00

This new jar by Glendora is hand coiled, painted and carved with exquisite, detailed incising. I was particularly attracted to the shape of jar, as well as the combination of designs – fish AND turtles, flowers, spirals, and underwater bubbles. They are all highlighted with additional clay slips that are painted onto the piece before it is fired. The deep red slipped jar is such a terrific background for the polychrome tones of her incised elements. The lip of the piece is curved and asymmetric, slipped black with painted red circles and tan dots. A beautiful border used to set off the etched designs below. Glendora’s depiction of these animals and fish with her sgraffito is superb. The jar is signed on the bottom with a corn stalk, Glendora’s hallmark.

4 ¾” high by 3 ½” wide

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Glendora Fragua

Jemez

Glendora Fragua was born into a family of potters at the Jemez Pueblo in New Mexico. Her mother, the well known potter Juanita Fragua, was her main inspiration. So at the age of 16, Glendora tried her hand at pottery making.But unlike Juanita, Glendora experimented with the scratch technique of etched pottery called sgraffito. Her designs are created by scratching away part of the polished surface of the pot. She often sets tones (coral, turquoise, onyx, malachite, lapis) into the decorated portions of the pots.They are placed in the pot before firing, removed during that process, and then replaced after the firing. This is by far one of the most difficult of all decorating methods, but Glendora has become a master at it ! Her work shows both a delicacy and sophistication.

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