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Mexican Pottery27 of 198Vintage Dolores Hidalgo Talavera Bowloblong Mexican ceramic jug/bottle
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    Posted 4 years ago

    artfoot
    (367 items)

    I stumbled onto this while visiting a couple of my favorite haunts a few days ago at a price I could cover with what was in my wallet. It came home with me. I wrapped it in a blanket, wedged it between the seats and hoped for the best. It made it just fine, so, what did I bring home? (You might ask.)

    This is a 28-inch tall terra cotta urn with a burnished "Feathered" or bird décor and lizard handles. It hails originally from the Tonalá area of Mexico sometime after 1930. (It is often difficult to date this sort of ware as the motifs were passed down through families.) There are no markings on the underside.

    Most prominent of the bird painters were the Díaz Family, producing bird motif items from the 1930s into the 1960s. Though the work is rarely signed, a few of the bird painters have been prolific and repetitive enough to have earned nicknames like "Knuckles", noted for detailed foot joints, and "Grabber", because the feet look like they are ready to clutch something. Both "Knuckles" and "Grabber" are suspected to have been members of the Díaz Family.

    I'm thinking this one is at least related to "Grabber" and the lizards are over-the-top wonderful.

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    1. Mrstyndall Mrstyndall, 4 years ago
      Wow, very nice!
    2. ho2cultcha ho2cultcha, 4 years ago
      nice one!

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