1970s Vintage Ken Edwards El Palomar Tonalá Mexico Ceramic Vase

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Offered is a hand painted ceramic vase by Ken Edwards from his El Palomar studio in Tonalá, Mexico. It features … Read more Offered is a hand painted ceramic vase by Ken Edwards from his El Palomar studio in Tonalá, Mexico. It features a butterfly, flowers, and a bird in shades of brown and indigo blue on a speckled beige background. The mouth and neck bear cinnamon and navy blue paint flourishes.

Measures 4.5" diameter by 7.5" tall, 3" base diameter 2.5" mouth diameter

"The Tonalá Museum stands on what was once the workshop of Ken Edwards who, along with his partner Jorge Wilmot, 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 the USA, Ken Edwards was educated in the Arts in Kansas City, Missouri and studied his art in Japan before migrating to Mexico in the late 1950s and establishing "El Palomar", the workshop in Tonalá, Mexico. Along with Wilmot, Edwards established a veritable mecca of Western Mexican pottery." See less