Vntg Mexican Ceramic Egg Master Potter Signed Jimon Folk Art Décor

Beautiful Museum Quality Egg Mexican Collectable Tall- 4 3/4" Wide- 5" Long- 7 1/2" The egg is meticulously hand painted by Florentino. The egg has beautiful white and orange flowers, along with white, light blue and dark leaves. The egg was signed. Florentino Jimón Barba is head of a ceramics family with over fifty years of experience. This began with Florentino’s father Agustín Jimón, who began working with clay as a child and later taught his son. Today the children of this family grow up around clay and pottery at the family workshop in Tonalá. Jimón Barba primarily works in bruñido and bandera, types of Jalisco pottery. Most of the bruñido (burnished) pieces are miniatures. Bandera pottery is so-called as it has a red background with the designs painted on in white and green, the colors of the Mexican flag. The pot is meticulously hand painted by Florentino Jimon Barba. Jimón Barba is noted for his traditional ceramics techniques, using white, black and red clays obtained l