Santa Clara Polychrome Wedding Vessel by Nicolasa [SOLD]

Nicolasa was the daughter of Tomacita and Agapito Naranjo and granddaughter of Sara Fina Tafoya and a cousin of Margaret Tafoya.  She had a long and distinguished career as a potter, making mostly blackware and occasionally redware.  Late in her career she and her daughter Roberta worked on pottery together and co-signed those pieces.  This redware wedding vessel is signed only with the name Nicolasa so it is an earlier piece.  I have been told that Nicolasa make redware in the early 1970s and started making blackware in the early 1980s.

Condition: original condition with only very minor abrasions

Provenance: from an Albuquerque gentleman