Ceramic Vase/Jar Master Potter Ventura Benitez Mexico Fine Folk Art Collectible
$ 199.99
- Aztec Style Ceramic Vase/Vessel Master Potter J. Ventura Hernandez Benitz
- Measurements:
- Height- 14"
- Width- 10"
- Circumference- 32"
- Opening- 5"
- This amazing vase is an example of Ventura's vision. This beautiful vase depicts hand carved Pre Hispanic figurines . Ventura has hand carved each symbol in a darker red.
- While both Santa Clara and Cuanajo are located in close proximity to Lake Pátzcuaro, other towns and villages farther away also have their own native crafts. In Zinapécuaro, J. Ventura Hernández Benítez remains solidly committed to his ceramic business as he has been for 40 years.
- The workshop's rustic brick walls held up a corrugated metal roof beneath which his creations seemed to gestate in the heat. Homemade plaster molds and their offspring - pots, vases and pitchers that required weeks of labor - lay about the shop in the hypnotic chaos of a true artisan. Small ceramic pumpkins sat on the concrete floor in front of a shelf loaded with vases covered with images of skeletons dressed in fiesta garb, geometric patterns of terraces and triangles, stylized dogs and monkeys. Pots in subtle shades of dark red ocher, greenish umber and bluish gray sat nearby.
