Glendora Fragua #83212

$225.00

Working with Glendora is so gratifying. She is always willing to try new shapes and designs after our conversations about form and painting. I am particularly attracted to her miniatures. She is one of our potters who really knows how to keep a beautiful form and designed theme and pare it down in size to be in the miniature category. This is a dragonfly and floral incised and painted seed pot. Using all natural clay, pigments, slips and paints, the polychrome (black, red, tan, and cream) colors are precisely painted on the buff pot. Added geometric forms add to the overall painted imagery.

2” high by 1 ¾” 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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