Mexican Pottery

Mexican Pottery posts cover the regional traditions across the country. Articles look at the Talavera tin-glazed earthenware from Puebla with its formal denomination of origin protection, the black barro negro pottery of Oaxaca burnished with quartz and famous since the work of Dona Rosa, the green Atzompa pieces, the burnished pots from Mata Ortiz revived by Juan Quezada in Chihuahua, the tree of life clay sculptures of Metepec and the everyday cooking pots of Michoacan. There are also notes on the use of lead glazes that have largely been phased out and on the difference between handmade and slip-cast.