This handmade vase represents the time-honored black pottery tradition of Oaxaca, Mexico from techniques handed down from prevous generations.  Fired clay is burnished to a sheen by hand with a piece of quartz or obsidian in a labor intensive practice to give the Barro Negro blackware its silky smooth surface.  

-Handmade in Mexico

-Not watertight

-For decorative use only

-9" tall

Donated by Jordyn Wells