Fan Flower Oaxaca Barro Negro Ceramic Napkin Holder _artisan--novica-artisan-3268 Realistic colors are added by

Realistic colors are added by hand in lustrous lacquer

Abstract shapes of sterling silver and copper

Beautiful and dramatic

centered by a duo of gleaming bars at the center

and are suspended from sterling hooks

Fan Flower Oaxaca Barro Negro Ceramic Napkin Holder _artisan--novica-artisan-3268 Realistic colors are added byThis vase shaped barro negro napkin holder is handcrafted by artisan Anakarem. She works in the time honored black pottery tradition of Oaxaca, with techniques learned from her father. The fired clay is burnished to a sheen with a piece of quartz or obsidian and fired in a wood burning kiln, which transforms the clay and gives it a lustrous black color. This napkin holder has a fan shaped half flower on each side made through a combination of