Oaxacan Style Oaxaca Barro Negro Decorative Ceramic Vase Chimpanzee Trust At once ethnic and modern

At once ethnic and modern

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crafts each albesia wood ornament by hand and paints them red

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Trisna Dewi crafts these chimes from bamboo

Oaxacan Style Oaxaca Barro Negro Decorative Ceramic Vase Chimpanzee Trust At once ethnic and modernThis decorative vase is handcrafted by artisan Anakarem. She works in the time honored black pottery tradition of Oaxaca, with techniques learned from her father. The fired clay is burnished to a sheen with a piece of quartz or obsidian and fired in a wood burning kiln, which transforms the clay and gives it a lustrous black color. This lovely little vase has a distinctive round bowl decorated with cutouts. materials: Ceramic For decorative use only