Daisy Ramirez: Seed Pot Mata Ortiz horse figure with their traditional woven dolls

with their traditional woven dolls that create the ribs of the armadillo

5''Long 31

The giraffe is a one-piece carving

produced some of the most visually arresting pottery of the ancient Americas

dating back to the pre-Columbian era

Daisy Ramirez: Seed Pot Mata Ortiz horse figure with their traditional woven dollsThe Mata Ortiz seed pot sits low and round, the kind of form that looks simple until you see what is on it. Daisy Ramirez, a Mata Ortiz potter from Chihuahua, has covered the entire upper dome in a dense, continuous field of tiny geometric marks triangles, spirals, zigzags, step frets each one individually incised by hand through a red slip to reveal the cream clay beneath. No pattern repeats in quite the same way twice. Fine teal lines divide the