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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.

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Erna Chosa Wilson is of Hopi-Tewa (father, Tom Collateta) and Jemez (mother, Antonita Chosa) heritage. She has been an active potter since 1978 working in traditional black & red on tanware jars, bowls, wedding vases and textiles. She is the granddaughter of Sarah Collateta; daughter of Antonita Chosa Colateta; and sister to Anthony Chosa and Kathleen Collateta. Erna lives at Jemez Pueblo with her husband William Wilson (Cherokee). She works with Hopi clay and Utilizes Hopi symbols, forma and techniques to create her work.

The vase at top, left, measures 13.25 inches tall by 6.5 inches wide with splendid detail, form and color. Your price $595 ~ Item #WV463. Click here to see an enlargement.

Erna has won numerous awards at the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Arts & Crafts Fair, the Jemez Pueblo Arts & Crafts Fair and the Santo Domingo Pueblo Art Show. Her work is included in several publications including Dr. Gregory Schaaf's "Southern Pueblo Pottery: 2000 Arts Biographies", and "Pueblo and Navajo Contemporary Pottery / Directory of Artists" by Berger & Schiffer.

The wedding vase at bottom, right, measures 11 inches tall by 6 inches wide - slender, graceful, excellent graphics. Your price $395 ~ Item #WV464. Click here to see an enlargement.

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Theresa R. Garcia-Salvador was born into the Acoma Pueblo in 1964 and is the sister of Vivian Seymour. She is a member of the Red Corn Clan and has been an active potter since the 80s working in traditional polychrome jars and bowls. She is included in several publications including Schaaf's "Southern Pueblo Pottery Artist Biographies" , and Berger & Schiffer's "Pueblo & Navajo Contemporary Pottery". The wedding vase at top features classic a classic Acoma motif which includes the parrot that symbolizes the female, fertility and family. It has excellent shape and graphics, solid colors, and measures an impressive 12 inches tall by 8.5 inches wide. Your price $495 ~ Item #WV474 Click here to see an enlargement.

At right is a polychrome wedding vase with Acoma parrot motif and concise solid graphics. It measures 8 inches tall by 5.5 inches wide. Your price $165 ~ Item #WV528.

A rare wedding vase at left in that it features not only the matriarchal parrot graphic but also the Acoma graphic for fertility. It is very well executed. It measures 8.25 inches tall by 6.5 inches wide. Your price $200 ~ Item #WV476.

At bottom, right, is a monochrome vase measuring 8.75 inches tall by 5.5 inches wide. Your price $165 ~ Item #WV527. SOLD

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Georgia Vigil is from Jemez Pueblo, Coyote Clan, and has been making pottery since 1984 working with Mimbres Rival, matte polychrome, sgraffito blackware and redware jars, vases and bowls. She is the daughter of Marie Vigil and sister of Lorraine Chinana and Ida Yepa. Georgia was taught traditional pueblo pottery making by her grandmother, Reyes Toya. Her work is included in Dr. Gregory Schaaf's book "Southern Pueblo Pottery: 2000 Artist Biographies" and in American Indian Art Magazine. Georgia has won awards at the New Mexico State Fair and the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial.

This wedding vase is an excellent example of her considerable talent with sgraffito - beautifully executed and a high gloss finish. This vase measures 7.5 inches tall by 4 inches wide. Your price $295 ~ Item #WV534. Click here to see an enlargement.

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Veronica Sando has been an active Jemez Pueblo potter since 1987 creating tradition jars, bowls and wedding vases. She is the granddaughter of Louisa Panana who was also her teacher. Her work has been published in Dr. Gregory Schaaf’s “Southern Pueblo Pottery: 2000 Artist Biographies” and Berger and Schiffer’s “Pueblo & Navajo Contemporary Pottery”.

Veronica's work has very fine, and unique, form plus superb painting comparable to that of Mary Louise E.Teeyan. This vase measures 9.75 inches tall by 5 inches wide. Your price $225 ~ Item #WV362 Click here to see an enlargement.

At left, bottom is a larger vase by Veronica with the same great form and beautifully executed graphics that are the hallmarks of her work.

This vase measures 11.25 inches tall by 6 inches wide. Your price $300 ~ Item #WV461 Click here to see an enlargement.

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Deldrick Cellicion collaborates with his wife, Lorenda Cellicion, at Zuni Pueblo to create polychrome jars, bowls, effigies and wedding vases. His favorite designs are lizards, salamanders, frogs, rosettes, feathers and scroll but it has been the salamander designs that have captured the eye of many pueblo pottery enthusiasts and collectors in recent years.

At left, top, is one of Deldrick and Lorenda's wonderful wedding vases that have become incredibly popular because of the vases' eloquent form and the three dimensional lizards that decorate the vases. These vases sell as soon as we put them up so if you're tempted don't delay. This vase measures 9.75 inches tall by 6 inches wide. Your price $195 ~ Item #WV456 SOLD

Their work is seen in many New Mexico galleries and fine shops and is included in "Southwestern Pottery: Anasazi to Zuni" by Hayes & Blom; and in Dr. Gregory Schaaf's "Southern Pueblo Pottery:2000 Artist Biographies".

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Kathleen Collateta is from Hopi and is a member of the Sun Clan. She has been an active potter since 1975 working on black and red on yellow seed pots, black and red on white, and a variety of styles on wedding vases.  She is of Jemez, Hopi-Tewa and Navajo descent. Her mother is Antonita Chosa of Jemez Pueblo. Her father is Tom Collateta Sr., who is Hopi-Tewa and Navajo. Kathleen was taught how to create traditional pottery by her grandmother, Sarah Collateta, using the clays of Hopi and pigments created from organic sources. She collaborates with her husband, Adrian Sandia to create her pottery and is best known for her eloquent wedding vases. She is published in Gregory Schaaf’s “Hopi Tewa Pottery” and Berger & Schiffer’s book ”Pueblo and Navajo Contemporary Pottery”.

She often uses birds and feathers in her motifs as symbols of the sacred and messengers that carry prayers. This wedding vase includes a Hopi kachina dancer, feathers and eagle tails. It measures 12 inches tall by 6.5 inches wide has excellent shape and graphics. A prize for any collection and a treasure as a wedding gift that is bound to increase in value as Kathy’s status as a Hopi potter continues to ascend. Your price $995 ~ Item #WV417 Click here to see enlargements.

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