179. Blackware vase, Mexico, ca. 2007
This was given to me as a thank-you gift for catsitting by a friend visiting Mexico. She said that she had taken a tour bus to a village that produces this type of pottery and bought it there.
Black clay, unglazed. Weight: 588 g (1.3 lb). Width: 9.8 cm (3-7/8 in). Height: 16.7 cm (6-1/2 in).
This sits on the flat base. The walls rise in a straight line to the rim. A jagged vertical pattern has been cut into the exterior walls. There are eight of these lines. In this type of ware, the exterior surface is burnished with a stone to make it smooth.
This is unglazed. The exterior sheen is due to the burnishing.
A simply but very pleasing pot.
Received as a gift, 2007.
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