Hernandez Family: Small Metepec Cross Mandarin Duck

Hernandez Family: Small Metepec Cross Mandarin DuckGorgeous ceramic cross by the Hernandez family of Metepec. This wonderful cross has beautiful sunflowers, roses, leaves, butterflies and birds! Origin: Metepec Dimensions: 5. 5''Tall 4''Long 2''Wide

this carving captures the playful spirit of everyday life in his village

Doña Rosa is noted for inventing a technique to produce barro negro

The pose is pure friendliness: sitting up

The ears are two small

For a century and a half — from roughly AD 1000 to 1150 — the Mimbres people of the prehistoric American Southwest painted bowls that rank among the most extraordinary figurative art ever produced in the ancient Americas

All that presence

The long curved beak reaches forward

the piece blends modern geometric motifs with the softness of natural feather patterns

He is one of the few Oaxacan carvers who does everything himself

balancing a generous cluster of balloons in pink

while each geometric motif pops with bright

this piece embodies the strength