Blackware Wedding Vessel by Virginia Ebelacker [R]

Virginia Ebelaker is certainly deserving of the accolades cast upon her as a truly outstanding artisan. This black wedding vessel is testimony to that. Its form and balance are extraordinary, and the burnishing produced a most striking sheen to the finished product. A true collectorr’s prize.

This vessel is carved on the bottom Snowflakes (her Indian name) and then signed on the bottom underneath this is 
Virginia Ebelacker 
Santa Clara Pueblo 
Box 1311, Espanola 
N. Mex.

Provenance: From a private collection in Munich Germany.