Native American San Juan (Ohkay Owingeh) pot, deeply incised terra cotta slip with cream overslip, pueblo designs,

Norman de Herrera is the son of Rosita de Herrera and the inheritor of an interesting history in pueblo pottery. In the late 1800s, San Juan Pueblo pottery disappeared. Pueblo residents stopped potting. Some say it was due to the growth of nearby Espanola and access to commercial vessels to meet their domestic needs.

In 1930, a study group was formed to re-start San Juan Pueblo pottery making, based on shards from the 1500s, which were turned up in excavations. A leader in that group, who became a noteworthy pottery producer, was Tomasita Montoya. She taught her daughter, Rosita de Herrera to make pottery, extending the production of pots in a style that had evolved from the “San Juan Revival” of 1930.

As the son of Rosita, Norman de Herrera has continued the tradition with what has been a limited number of pots to carry his signature. This is one of those.
3"H #PL57

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