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  2. Mexican ceramics - Wikipedia

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    Ceramics in Mexico date back thousands of years before the Pre-Columbian period, when ceramic arts and pottery crafts developed with the first advanced civilizations and cultures of Mesoamerica. With one exception, pre-Hispanic wares were not glazed, but rather burnished and painted with colored fine clay slips .

  3. Mata Ortiz pottery - Wikipedia

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    The pre Hispanic pottery tradition had been completely lost, but clay was still abundant in the area. [2] Juan Quezada is credited for the revival and development of pottery making in the area. In the early 1960s, he was a very poor farmer who also collected firewood in the area of the Paquimé archeological site. [9]

  4. Ceramics of Jalisco - Wikipedia

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    High fire ceramic with traditional designs at the Museo Regional de la Ceramica, Tlaquepaque.. Ceramics of Jalisco, Mexico has a history that extends far back in the pre Hispanic period, but modern production is the result of techniques introduced by the Spanish during the colonial period and the introduction of high-fire production in the 1950s and 1960s by Jorge Wilmot and Ken Edwards.

  5. Juan Quezada Celado - Wikipedia

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    Juan Quezada Celado (6 May 1940 - 1 December 2022 [1]) was a Mexican potter known for the re-interpretation of Casas Grandes pottery known as Mata Ortiz pottery. Quezada is from a poor rural town in Chihuahua, who discovered and studied pre Hispanic pottery of the Mimbres and Casas Grandes cultures. He eventually worked out how the pots were ...

  6. Mexican handcrafts and folk art - Wikipedia

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    Ceramics was considered one of the highest art forms during the Aztec Empire, with the knowledge of making pottery said to have come from the god Quetzalcoatl himself. Pre-Hispanic pottery was made by coiling the clay into a circle then up the sides, then scraping and molding the coiled work until the coils could no longer be detected.

  7. Artisanal Talavera of Puebla and Tlaxcala - Wikipedia

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    During roughly the same time period, pre-Hispanic cultures had their own tradition of pottery and ceramics, but they did not involve a potter's wheel or glazing. [2] [9] There are several theories as to how majolica pottery was introduced to Mexico. [2]

  8. Gran Coclé - Wikipedia

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    Gran Coclé is an archaeological culture area of the so-called Intermediate Area in pre-Columbian Central America. The area largely coincides with the modern-day Panamanian province of Coclé, and consisted of a number of identifiable native cultures. Archaeologists have loosely designated these cultures by pottery style. The poorly studied La ...

  9. Handcrafts and folk art in Michoacán - Wikipedia

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    Copper and bronze implements on display at the site museum of Tzintzuntzan. Evidence of pre Hispanic craftsmanship, especially in ceramics, can be found in all parts of the state, but the most developed crafts traditions date from the Purépecha Empire, which centered on Lake Pátzcuaro and extended east to what is now the Michoacán border with the State of Mexico.