1970s "El Palomar" Tonalá Mexico Ceramic Sun & Moon Vase by Jorge Wilmot

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The Tonalá Museum stands on what was once the workshop of Jorge Wilmot who, along with his partner Ken Edwards, … Read more The Tonalá Museum stands on what was once the workshop of Jorge Wilmot who, along with his partner Ken Edwards, set up the town’s first high-fire ceramics oven between 1959-60. By 1985, the building was functioning as a museum, and the acquisition of a significant collection of indigenous ceramics lead to its establishment at a national museum level.

Born in 1928 in Monterrey, Wilmot trained in Europe, including periods in France, Sweden, and Switzerland before his return to Mexico and the establishment of the Tonalá workshop. Along with the United States-born Edwards, Wilmot established a veritable mecca of Western Mexican pottery in Jalisco until his passing in 2012."

Wilmot's work has become highly collectible since his passing twelve years ago.

Signed "W" below the bird and the leaves on the right side of the right side of the sun, this is a 1970s example of Wilmot's hand-painted and glazed earthenware: a light putty base, shades of brown, taupe, black, and indigo.

The vase measures 6.75" W x 4.25" D x 5.875" H. See less