Ken Price US, 1935-2012
Tona Bowl, circa 1976
Glazed & painted ceramic
4 x 6.625 x 6.625 ins
10.2 x 17.1 x 17.1 cm
10.2 x 17.1 x 17.1 cm
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Tona Bowl: Tona refers to Tonalá, the town in Mexico where Ken and Happy Price travelled in the early 1970s and admired, studied, and collected the ceramics traditionally produced there. The...
Tona Bowl: Tona refers to Tonalá, the town in Mexico where Ken and Happy Price travelled in the early 1970s and admired, studied, and collected the ceramics traditionally produced there.
The town, near rich clay seams, has been a center of pottery — and of trade more broadly — for millenniums. It remains one of Mexico’s top artisanal hubs; the streets are lined with shops and ateliers, and a complex at its heart features nothing but earthenware.
