VINTAGE HAND CRAFTED MICACEOUS CLAY POTTERY by LONNIE VIGIL – NAMBE PUEBLO

Stunning vintage hand coiled micaceous clay pottery from the Nambe Pueblo by Lonnie Vigil (1949-).

“The fire clouds are the result of the fuel touching the pottery. When we fire the pieces, we use cottonwood bark. The pottery doesn’t get fire clouded everywhere but just in certain places. It’s serendipitous they don’t happen all in the same place. This jar was fired right side up. You can tell because the fire clouding is on the bottom. Often they (pottery) tell me how they want to sit in the fire. I can fire them upside down or right side up. Some of them are just tottering, so that means they want to be with their mouth to the fire.” Lonnie Vigil, Spoken Through Clay

Pot measures 6 1/4 inches all around and 7 3/4 inches tall.

Signed on the bottom “Lonnie Vigil” and “Nambe Pueblo”.