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Contemporary Zulu Pot by Thembi Nala

Name: Contemporary Zulu Pot by Thembi Nala
Price: 780 USD
Availability: InStock

$780

Joe Richards Studio

Los Angeles, CA

Description: Zulu Beer Vessel by Thembi Nala. Signed on the bottom dated 1998.

Thembi Nala was taught by her grandmother, Siphiwe, … more Zulu Beer Vessel by Thembi Nala. Signed on the bottom dated 1998.

Thembi Nala was taught by her grandmother, Siphiwe, and by her mother, Nesta Nala. Aged 12, she began sculpting guinea fowl birds in clay. Later her mother taught her to make pots in the traditional Zulu way. As South African art museums and galleries began to recognize virtuoso ceramics, Thembi Nala established a career in her own right. She decorates vessels with low-relief figures and scenes, but also makes pots of classic Zulu form and decoration.
Zulu pots, made for the ritualized brewing and consumption of sorghum beer, are spiritual vessels, linked to the ancestors who govern all fertility. Pots are decorated, blackened, and burnished to please the spirits. Undecorated brewing pots are especially sacred because fermentation is a metaphor of conception. less

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