Rose Gonzales
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Rose Cata Gonzales was born in Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo in the U.S. state of New Mexico. She is known for her original carved blackware pottery, and for traditional pottery in the Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo sty
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Stoneware
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Stoneware is a broad class of pottery fired at a relatively high temperature, to be impervious to water. A modern definition is a vitreous or semi-vitreous ceramic made primarily from stoneware clay o
Rose Gonzales
…Ildefonso. It was her mother-in-law, Ramona Sanchez Gonzales, who taught Gonzales how to make pottery. She learned the methods of black-on-black, polished blackware and black-on-red. By 1930 she began to create very refined and highly polished, blackware and redware. The fine redware she made came from her home…
Jian ware tea bowl with "hare's fur" glaze, southern Song dynasty, 12th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art (see below)
Three contemporary stoneware mixing bowls
Telegraph insulator, 1840s–1850
American stoneware jug with Albany slip glaze on the top, c. 1900, Red Wing, Minnesota