Wedding Vases

Pueblo Pottery Maine presents traditional and contemporary wedding vases by Santa Clara, Jemez, Hopi, Zia, Laguna, Zuni, Taos and Acoma artists.

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Mary Louise E.Teeyan, of the Jemez Pueblo, has been an active potter for 25 years and specializes in olla, jars, lidded bowls, wedding vases and seed jars. She has won first place awards at the New Mexico State Fair, the Eight Northern Indian Pueblo Arts & Crafts Show, and the Inter-tribal Indian Ceremonial. Her work is shown by the Indian Craft Shop, U.S. Department of Interior, Washington, D.C., and many other prominent galleries.

At top is a wedding vase by Mary Louise E. Teeyan that is of very fine quality - perfect shape and design. Any purchase of this artist's work is a purchase of flawless work whether a small vase or large - a very special gift. This smaller wedding vase measures 9 inches tall by 4.5 inches wide. Your price $285 ~ Item #WV448. Click here to see an enlargement.

Mary's work is featured in Schaaf's "Southern Pueblo Pottery: 2000 Artist Biographies",and "Southwestern Pottery: Anasazi to Zuni" by Allan Hayes & John Blom.

At bottom is another piece of Mary's perfect work. This vase measures 8.25 inches tall by 4.75 inches wide. Your price $275 ~ Item #WV643. Click here to see an enlargement.

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Thomas Tenorio does both traditional and contemporary polychrome jars, bowls and miniatures. He is the grandson of Pete Aguilar and the son of Trinidad Aguilar and Anacita Tenorio.

Thomas has been working with clay since 1972 and is basically self-taught He has won numerous 1st and 2nd place awards over the years at the New Mexico state Fair and the Inter-tribal Indian Ceremonial plus at shows in Texas, Colorado, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. Thomas is included in "Southern Pueblo Pottery: 2000 Artist Biographies" by Gregory Schaaf and in Berger & Schiffer's "Pueblo & Navajo Contemporary Pottery".

This is a rare Thomas Tenorio wedding vase measuring 11.25 inches tall by 7 inches wide with very solid colors, good graphics and fine shape. Your price $545 ~ Item #WV575. Click here to see an enlargement.

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Geraldine F. Sandia of Jemez Pueblo created this beautiful wedding vase of outstanding detail and beauty. She is of Jemez/Acoma descent. She began winning awards for her work over 20 years ago. She gathers her own clay at Jemez Pueblo, hand coils, hand paints, stone polishes and pit fires her pots outdoors. Her mother, Cecilia Loretto, taught her all the fundamentals and shared with her all the special techniques of a master potter. Caroline and Mary Loretto are her sisters. Well known Acoma potters Florence and Rachel Aragon are her aunts. The pot at top, left measures 9 inches wide by 5 inches wide. Your price $275 ~ Item #WV620

The vase at left measures 5.5 inches tall by 3 inches wide. Your price $95 ~ Item #WV625

Geraldine has won awards for her wedding vases continuously at the Santa Fe Indian Market since 1980, as well as awards from the Heard Museum and at the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Arts & Crafts Show - over 20 in all. Her work is in the Heard Museum's permanent collection.

The vase at right measures an impressive 12 inches tall by 7 inches wide. Your price $575 ~ Item #WV573. Click here to see an enlargement.

Geraldine's work is included in "Southwestern Pottery: Anasazi to Zuni" by Hayes and Blom; Gregory Schaaf's "Southern Pueblo Pottery Biographies"; Berger and Schiffer's "Pueblo and Navajo Contemporary Pottery"; plus Indian Market Magazine and the SWAIA Quarterly.

The vase at left is an exceptionally well-done piece measuring 10 inches tall by 6 inches wide. Your price $315 ~ Item #WV646. Click here to see an enlargement.

The wedding vase at right has a wonderfully complex design with deep colors and fine shape. It measures 9.5 inches tall by 6 inches wide. Your price $275 ~ Item #WV645.

The wedding vase at left measures 8 inches tall by 4 inches wide with black spouts, feather motif and small corn stalk design. Your price $195 ~ Item #WV647.

The vase at right measures 8 inches tall by 4 inches wide with black spouts and large corn motif. Your price $195 ~ Item #WV648

The vase at left has a white feather and black corn motif measuring 8 inches tall by 4 inches wide. Your price $195 ~ Item #WV649

The vase at right measures 7.5 inches tall by 4 inches wide. Your price $150 ~ Item #WV650. SOLD

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Rose M. Lewis is an accomplished potter from Santa Clara Pueblo who has been creating beautiful carved blackware jars, vases, and bowls since the 80s. She is the daughter of Olaria Sisneros and sister of Jerry Sisneros. Her work has been included in Gregory Schaaf's "Pueblo Indian Pottery: 750 Artist Biographies", the Eight Northern Pueblos Official Visitors Guide, and other publications as well as exhibited at the Santa Fe Indian Market and the Eight Northern Pueblos Arts & Crafts Show.

This wedding vase features Kokopelli and is very well executed with perfect shape and fine polish. It measures 11 inches tall by 6 inches wide. Your price $545 ~ Item #WV589. Click here to see a detailed enlargement.

At right, is a carved blackware pot with excellent polish and carving measuring 4.5 inches tall by 4.5 inches wide. Your price $210 ~ Item #SC373.

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Vangie Tafoya, is of Jemez Pueblo and San Ildefonso Pueblo lineage. She has been an active potter since 1983 working with polished red ware, black-on-white sgraffito jars, seed pots, melon bowls and wedding vases. She is the mother of Brenda Tafoya, Tyrone Tafoya, and the very talented Helen Tafoya Henderson. She has won many awards (including Best of Show and 1st) at the Santa Fe Indian Market, New Mexico State Fair, Inter-tribal Indian Ceremonial, the Heard Museum and the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Arts & Crafts Show.

The vase at right, top, celebrates life with hummingbirds hovering over flowers with a feather pattern on the side. Vangie used some micaceous slips that places light flakes of mica in the dark brown swirls. This vase measures 9.5 inches high by 5.5 inches wide with kiva steps cut into the spouts. Your price $465 ~ Item #WV640.

Vangie's vases generally have a polychrome surface of burnished and plain clay of buff, brown and red ware. Incredibly labor intensive and a dedicated spirit of creation make this a real treasure. Very well executed with crisp sgraffito, solid colors and fine polish. Vangie is doing some of the most creative work of any potter on any pueblo. Vangie's work has been published in Berger & Schiffer's "Pueblo and Navajo Contemporary Pottery"; "Southwestern Pottery: Anasazi to Zuni" by Hayes & Blom; and in Dr. Gregory Schaaf's "Southern Pueblo Pottery: 2000 Artist Biographies".

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