Rito Talavera Quezada, Mata Ortiz square lip floral and sun patterned jar
Rito Talavera Quezada
Mata Ortiz
Alternative Name
Rito Talavera Quezada
Date
1989
Classification
Ceramic
Dimensions
6 3/4 x 9 x 9 in. (17.1 x 22.9 x 22.9 cm)
Accession Number
2016.35.30.89
Credit
Gift of John W. Brinley
Biography
Rito is married to Lydia Quezada. They live in Nuevo Casas Grandes. Rito at first helped Lydia, for years considered to be one of the best Mata Ortiz potters. However, he has developed his own black ware similar to that of his sister-in-law, Reynalda Quezada. Rito's ollas usually feature lizards or snakes in relief around the rim.
Lydia was producing black on black pottery early in her career, then moved to polished and matte black surfaces, then to a three-black design process. Then she moved to making large ollas of black and cream polychromes. Rito's general pieces tend to be stone-polished blackware with sculptural forms of turtles, lizards and snakes added to the rims and the upper sides of his ollas.
Parks, Walter P.; The miracle of Mata Ortiz: Juan Quezada and the potters of northern Chihuahua, Coulter Press, Riverside, 1993: 140.
https://www.eyesofthepot.com/mata-ortiz/lydia-quezada.php
Lydia was producing black on black pottery early in her career, then moved to polished and matte black surfaces, then to a three-black design process. Then she moved to making large ollas of black and cream polychromes. Rito's general pieces tend to be stone-polished blackware with sculptural forms of turtles, lizards and snakes added to the rims and the upper sides of his ollas.
Parks, Walter P.; The miracle of Mata Ortiz: Juan Quezada and the potters of northern Chihuahua, Coulter Press, Riverside, 1993: 140.
https://www.eyesofthepot.com/mata-ortiz/lydia-quezada.php
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Rito Talavera Quezada 7-89
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