Lovely Older Isleta Pueblo Pottery Friendship Basket mr thayer Most of the wear/paint loss

Most of the wear/paint loss is along the bottom edge

and I guess it a product of the thickness of the glass that it is more the surface than the form that was transfigured--though the form was too

Dhorka refers to the traditional method of lost wax casting native the Dhokra Damar tribes of West Bengal

They also make me think of the marvelous sign language paintings of Martin Wong (if you’re not familiar

Lovely Older Isleta Pueblo Pottery Friendship Basket mr thayer Most of the wear/paint lossI have a particular love for the graphic patterns rendered in black and rust against cream body on Isleta pueblo pottery, with these patterns also carrying symbolic meanings relating to nature, cycles of life, infinity, etc. Boldly hand painted all the way around, and with a tall twisted clay handle, this "friendship" basket is a lovely example of a earlier piece created for the tourist market c. 1920s 30s or so, I believe. With some writing on the