Linda Tafoya Oyenque Santa Clara Carved Blackware Wedding Vase

Linda Tafoya Oyenque also known as Linda Tafoya Sanchez (Santa Clara / San Juan, b. 1962). Blackware wedding vase. Pottery vessel, n.d. Signed on underside of base. A hand-built blackware wedding vase by Linda Tafoya Oyenque, signed on the underside "Linda Tafoya Oyenque Santa Clara San Juan." Two flaring spouts rise from an ovoid body and are joined by an arched strap handle. The whole surface is burnished to a deep, mirror-like black, with the gloss ending in a single crisp line. Around the shoulder runs a deeply carved band that probably shows an avanyu, the Puebloan water serpent. Its stepped, lightning-like body ends in a curling crest. The polished relief stands out against a recessed field left matte. The contrast between gloss and matte is the hallmark of the Tafoya family, and it is achieved here with the steady carving their work is known for. The twin-spouted form is traditionally linked to Pueblo wedding customs, in which the couple drinks from the vessel. Linda Tafoya (born 1962) learned pottery from her parents, Lee and Betty Tafoya. She is the granddaughter of Margaret Tafoya (1904-2001), the matriarch whose large, deeply polished vessels set the standard for Santa Clara blackware in the twentieth century. Her aunt, Mary Esther Archuleta, also guided her in her early years. Linda signed her early work "Linda Tafoya-Oyenque" while she lived at San Juan Pueblo, now Ohkay Owingeh. She later settled near Santa Clara Pueblo and began signing "Linda Tafoya-Sanchez." The San Juan signature on this vase places it in the earlier phase of her career, and long-time collectors look for that name. Her work has won awards at the Santa Fe Indian Market, the Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market, and the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Arts & Crafts Show. It appears in "Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery" and in Gregory Schaaf's "Pueblo Indian Pottery: 750 Artist Biographies." She appeared on the cover of New Mexico Magazine in August 2006, was a featured artist in the 2011 Santa Fe Indian Market Magazine, and was commissioned to make a vessel given as a state gift to the Prince of Spain. In her mature work she adds textured matte fields and micaceous clay to the classic burnished surface, building on the family tradition while making it her own. Santa Clara blackware begins as red-brown clay. The potter coils it by hand, coats it with slip, and polishes it with a smooth stone before firing. Near the end of the firing, the potter smothers the fire with dried manure to cut off the oxygen, and this reduction turns the whole vessel black. The burnished areas fire to a lustrous gloss, while carved or unpolished areas stay soft and matte. The two-tone black-on-black effect is the result of the potter's handwork, not a glaze. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. Item # 206099

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