**Originally Listed At $450**

Sharon Naranjo Garcia (Santa Clara Pueblo, b. 1951). Blackware jar, late 20th to 21st century CE. Signature with "Santa Clara / Pueblo" inscribed on underside of base. An elegant pottery bowl by Pueblo potter Sharon Naranjo Garcia, boasting a highly burnished finish, deeply carved with an image of the serpent deity Avanyu (Awanyu) with an arrow-like tongue, and then pit-fired to black. The carved channels travel endlessly around the jar, scrolling, curving, and sending off in various directions as it highlights the bulbous body and convex walls of the vessel. Size: 7.25" Diameter x 5.5" H (18.4 cm x 14 cm)

From the artist's website: "Sharon Naranjo Garcia is from Khapo Owingeh, Santa Clara Pueblo, a Tewa speaking pueblo located in Northern New Mexico where the Singing Water meets the Rio Grande. Sharon has been making pottery since she was a child, which nurtured into a career in which she has done for over forty years. She was taught pottery from her 'Gia' (mother), Christina Naranjo, as she was taught from hers. The process has remained traditional in Sharon?s work, despite the many technological advancements. She has participated in Santa Fe Indian Market for more than thirty years.

Sharon focuses on traditional Santa Clara Pueblo Pottery. A traditional art form that has been passed on from generation to generation in her family. All pieces are made by hand, using materials that have been locally gathered and processed just as her early ancestors. The clay is still processed in the same manner, the clay is built up using hand coils that are mended and shaped with hand and smooth with gourds, the pots are dried, sanded and an additional clay slip is added and then stone polished, the pottery is finished in a traditional outdoor firing. Each pot is unique as each step adds its own mark to the overall finished piece. No two pots are ever the same as conditions and many variables are attributed. Sharon enjoys the traditional shapes and designs however she allows her natural surroundings and spiritual connection to influence her designs. Working with Pi Ehn Kweeyo (Clay Mother) keeps her connected to her family, tradition, and culture, and through her art, she is able to share this significance."

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Provenance: private Don Phelps collection, owner Todos Santos Trading Post, Alamo, California, USA, before 2000, acquired at a Marin, California, USA ethnographic show in 1978

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Signature with "Santa Clara / Pueblo" inscribed on underside of base. Some minor nicks to surface, but otherwise intact and excellent with clear imagery and a lustrous burnish.