Oaxaca Barro Negro Decorative Ceramic Vase - Oaxacan Style Thank You Gifts size and design

size and design

Faceted blue topaz

depicting cute baby sloths as they hold onto the branches of the rainforest

elegant fringes

Carvings such as these were used as printing blocks for textiles and kept in a library at the workshops to be used for many years

Oaxaca Barro Negro Decorative Ceramic Vase - Oaxacan Style Thank You Gifts size and designThis decorative vase is handcrafted by artisan Anakarem. She works in the time honored black pottery tradition of Oaxaca, with techniques learned from her father. The fired clay is burnished to a sheen with a piece of quartz or obsidian and fired in a wood burning kiln, which transforms the clay and gives it a lustrous black color. This lovely little vase has a distinctive round bowl decorated with cutouts. Ceramic 0. 34 lbs 5. 5 inches H x 3. 5