Mid 20th Century Chulucanas Pottery of Woman, Signed Angelica Silva Peru

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Fantastic Hand-Made Ceramic Sculpture of a Woman by Peruvian Artist Angelica Silva.

The village of Chulucanas in northern Peru produces … more Fantastic Hand-Made Ceramic Sculpture of a Woman by Peruvian Artist Angelica Silva.

The village of Chulucanas in northern Peru produces its own brand of crafts, Chulucanas art. The distinctive product or artifact are the charmingly rotund clay figures with their soft and satiny finish resulting from a firing process that uses smoldering mango leaves. The ancestor and model of these ample and portly figures is the gourd-like fruit of the calabash tree. Calabash shells, once used to represent human figures thanks to a carved little head added to the gourd, mutated over time to become the colorful and much sought-after clay sculptures like this one.
This woman is holding a vegetable. Dress is vivid green, yellow and brown tones. less