A vase by Florencia Cortés of Los Reyes Metzontla, a Popoloca community in southern Puebla. A flared neck rises from a shoulder studded with small balls of clay in red slip, over a black lower body that rests on small round feet.

Shaped on the hand-turned wheel, decorated with applied clay (pastillaje), burnished and fired at low temperature in a traditional kiln; a reduction firing gives the lower half its black color.

Florencia C. · Los Reyes Metzontla, Puebla, Mexico

Barro natural bruñido con engobe; Torno manual y pastillaje y reduccion; Horno tradicional de baja temperatura

Dimensions: 15.4 × 11.4 × 11.4 in (39 × 29 × 29 cm) Weight: 11.4 lb (5.16 kg)

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