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N° 016 · 1 of 1 — Available

The clay vessel

The clay vessel
$1,150No reproductions
OAXACA Mercado Benito Juárez
Prologue · Hers

She meant to keep this one.

I · The kiln

Fired in a wood-burning kiln outside Oaxaca City.

II · A batch of one

In a batch of one.

III · How it came to us

The potter does not usually keep a second of anything she makes.

She told us this was the piece she had planned to keep for herself.

We asked anyway.

IV · Every side of it

Turn it in your hands.

The clay vessel — the front
IThe front
Photograph to come
IIThe handle
Photograph to come
IIIThe mouth, from above
Photograph to come
IVThe base
V · The valleys behind it

Some of Mexico's oldest pottery traditions.

Mercado Benito Juárez, steps from the zócalo, is where this craft still lives.

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors

VI · The record

A set.A series. One.

Not one of many. The one she had set aside.

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EraContemporary, 2025
CatalogDOKU N° 016
Edition1 of 1 — no reissue
MaterialHand-fired clay
VII · Yours

She made it to keep.Just not for herself.

1 of 1. There was only ever one.

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