{"id":12290,"date":"2014-08-27T07:04:14","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T07:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craftmontaz.com\/blog\/?p=12290"},"modified":"2014-08-27T07:04:14","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T07:04:14","slug":"narrow-necked-mexican-vase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craftmontaz.com\/blog\/narrow-necked-mexican-vase","title":{"rendered":"Narrow Necked Mexican Vase"},"content":{"rendered":"

Native American pottery<\/a>\u00a0is an art form with at least a 7500-year history in\u00a0the Americas.Pottery is fired ceramics with clay as a component. The usage of ceramics started for utilitarian cooking vessels, serving and storage vessels, and gradually the craft developed and extended its creation towards the making of funerary urns,\u00a0vases, musical instruments, ceremonial items, masks, toys, sculptures and a numerous other art forms.<\/p>\n

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Southwest Pottery from Mexico<\/p><\/div>\n

There are various types of pottery that gets created in various styles across the country. Here is an overview:<\/p>\n

Oaxaca State: Here both functional and decorative pottery and ceramic pieces are produced. The two best known pottery traditions are\u00a0“barro negro”\u00a0and the\u00a0green-glazed pieces of Santa Mar\u00eda Atzompa.\u00a0Barro negro (black clay) pottery<\/a> is a style of pottery distinguished by its color, sheen and unique designs.<\/p>\n

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Hopi Style Pottery from Mexico<\/p><\/div>\n

Jalisco: <\/strong>A wide variety of traditional low-fire and some high fire ceramics are made in the Guadalajara area, ranging from cheap objects to artistic productions. The two main pottery producing places are\u00a0Tonal\u00e1\u00a0and Tlaquepaque. Tonal\u00e1 has long been recognized as a center for ceramics in Mexico. The streets are filled with artisan workshops and sidewalks stalls selling pottery and stoneware. Tlaquepaque hosts the Pantalen Panduro National Ceramics Prize Museum, which exhibits the prize winners of the annual national prize given to ceramics makers.<\/p>\n

Puebla: Talavera pottery of Puebla<\/a>, Mexico is a type of majolica ceramic, which is distinguished by a milky-white glaze.\u00a0Authentic Talavera pottery only comes from the city of Puebla and the nearby communities, because of the quality of the natural clay found there and a tradition of production that dates to the 16th century.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Conical Hopi Style Pottery Vase from Mexico<\/p><\/div>\n

The village of Juan Mata Ortiz is located along the banks of the Palanganas River near Nuevo Casas Grandes in the high northern plains of Chihuahua. The place became famous for the Mata Ortiz pottery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Amongst many types of Mexican pottery, Craft Montaz has selected the narrow necked style vases from the Hopi<\/a> potters. The painting style is unique and fits well for home and offices with modern d\u00e9cor.<\/p>\n

By: Pushpita, a freelance writer on world handicrafts and lifestyle. Pushpita holds a Masters in English literature and is a rich media professional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Native American pottery\u00a0is an art form with at least a 7500-year history in\u00a0the Americas.Pottery is fired ceramics with clay as a component. The usage of ceramics started for utilitarian cooking vessels, serving and storage vessels, and gradually the craft developed and extended its creation towards the making of funerary urns,\u00a0vases,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pottery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craftmontaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craftmontaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craftmontaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftmontaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftmontaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12290"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftmontaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12306,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftmontaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12290\/revisions\/12306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craftmontaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftmontaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftmontaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}