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Wedding Vases

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

Benjamin & Geraldine Toya of Jemez Pueblo created these beautiful, fine line eye dazzler wedding vases. He is of the Acorn Clan and has been making fine line, polychrome jars, vases wedding vases and bowls since 1985. Geraldine ("Laguna Flower") is of the Coyote Clan and has been an active potter since 1987. The wedding vase at left (no second image) has white trimmed handle and spout edges measuring 14.5 inches tall by 6.5 inches wide. Your price $240 ~ Item #WV506

"Ben and Geraldine Toya are noted for their large fine line black-on-white with polychrome highlights.They have been rewarded for their efforts winning Best of Show and Best of pottery at the New Mexico State Fair." Gregory Schaaf, "Southern Pueblo Artists: 2000 Artist Biographies".

The vase at right measures 14.5 inches tall by 6.5inches wide. Your price $240 ~ Item #WV535. Click here to see an enlargement.

These wedding vases have excellent art work featuring many traditional designs such as pinwheel, corn stalks (fertility), feathers, flowers and vines. The colors have a quality of gentle warmth and 4 style that has made vases of this design extremely popular as wedding and anniversary gifts. All signed by the artists.

At left is a vase with pinwheel feather medallion and flowers on both spouts. It measures 14 inches tall by 6.5 inches wide. Your price $275 ~ Item #WV630.

The wedding vase at right features a diagonal weave pattern and flower on spout. It measures 14 inches tall by 6.5 inches wide. Your price $275 ~ Item #WV629

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Maxine Yepa is from the Jemez Pueblo Oak Clan and has been an active potter since 1985 working with matte polychrome and stone burnished black on redware pots, jars, bowls and wedding vases. Although she has chosen not to enter competitions her work is most definitely award worthy with excellent shape, polishing and graphics. Her work is included in Dr. Gregory Schaaf's book "Southern Pueblo Potters: 2000 Artist Biographies".

The vase at top is black on redware on one side (with a bird graphic) and black on buff on the reverse side. The pot at left measures 8.5 inches tall by 4 inches wide with a twisted coil matte red handle and black on buff feather/wing graphic. Your price $170 ~ Item #WV592. SOLD

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Mary Small (Kal-La-Tee, "New Indian Basket") is from Jemez Pueblo and has been an active potter since the 1950s working with matt polychrome jars, bowls, wedding vases, storytellers and miniatures. She was taught traditional pottery making by her mother Perfectita Toya. She collaborates with her husband Simon in making their distinctive and highly recognizable pottery. The wedding vase at right measures 12 inches tall by 4.75 inches wide. Your price $495 ~ Item #WV594. Click here for a detailed enlargement of this beautiful piece of art.

Mary creates beautiful wedding vases with clean, crisp graphics, solid colors and wonderful shape. The top vase is a really fine Mary Small masterpiece - tall, slender, graceful. An eloquent twisted clay handle and two fine turquoise nuggets give this vase a uniquely, authentic flare. What an incredible gift this hand coiled wedding vase would make.

The wedding vase at left measures 11 inches tall by 5.5 inches wide. Your price $420 ~ Item #WV665.

Pottery making is a continuous prayer in her life. Each step in her process is an occasion of ceremonial attunement. Mary states, “I ask a blessing for each stage. Before beginning to make the pottery, I ask Mother Earth to give me good clay because my belief is strong. I respect the potteries. They give me bread and butter for my family. I talk to the clay. I put my mind to making good pots. I treat them like human beings so they won’t be broken. If an accident happens, I bury the piece and give it back to Mother Earth. In return I’ll get a nice pot. I was taught that by my mother.” She adds, “When my potteries are finished, they are blessed. They have power. Whoever buys the pottery should have a nice home, a happy life, and a sacred object because there are a lot of prayers in my potteries.”

The wedding vase at right measures 11.5 inches tall by 6 inches wide. Your price $450 ~ Item #WV666.

Mary and Simon Small’s pottery has won numerous awards including 1st place at the Santa Fe Indian Market, the Heard Museum Show, the New Mexico State Fair, the Inter-tribal ceremonial, and the Indian Arts & Crafts Association Show (IACA). She was the IACA’s 2002 Artist of the Year,winning with a beautiful olla that she is pictured with here. Mary’s work is included in “Southwestern Pottery: Anasazi to Zuni” by Hayes and Blom; Gregory Schaaf's “Southern Pueblo Pottery Biographies”; and Berger and Schiffer's “Pueblo and Navajo Contemporary Pottery”.

The vase at left measures 7 inches tall by 3.5 inches wide. Your price $150 ~ Item #WV692. SOLD

The vase at right measures 7 inches tall by 3.5 inches wide. Your price $150 ~ Item #WV693.

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Bertina Tosa has been an active potter since 1973 and works in polychrome polished red ware jars, bowls, vases and Storytellers. She is the daughter of Mary S. Toya; sister of Elizabeth Medina and sister-in-law of Zia potter Marcellus Medina. The wedding vase at right measures 10 inches tall by 5 inches wide. Your price $165 ~ Item #WV613 SOLD

Bertina uses local clay, hand coils and paints, and fires her pottery outdoors with cedar chips. Her work is beautiful, balanced and plush with terraced clouds, kiva steps, feathers, fine line rain and leaves - classic Jemez! She is one of our favorites. Included in Gregory Schaaf's "Southern Pueblo Pottery: 2000 Artist Biographies" and other publications. Her wedding vases have become very popular in recent years outselling many other potters who work in the genre.

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