Deldrick &
Adam Cellicion
Sunface Bowl
4 1/2"
H x 10 1/2" D
Deldrick Cellicion collaborates
with his wife, Lorenda Cellicion, at Zuni Pueblo to create polychrome
jars, bowls, effigies and wedding vases. His favorite designs
are lizards, salamanders, frogs, rosettes, feathers and scroll
but it has been the salamander designs that have capturede the
eyes of many pueblo pottery enthusiasts and collectors in recent
years.
Deldrick and Lorenda's work
is included in "Southwestern PotteryL: Anasazi to Zuni"
by Hayes and Blom; and in Dr. Gregory Schaaf's "Southern
Pueblo Pottery: 2000 Artist Biographies".
Adam Cellicion is the son
of Zuni potter Deldrick Cellicion. Adam learned the art of pottery
making by working with his father.
The Cellicion family name
has become synonymous with the three-dimensional lizard pattern.
The pottery from Zuni Pueblo is easy to distinguish from other
Pueblos. The artists from Zuni Pueblo create more open pieces
such as baskets and bowls and are known for using common animal
images like the deer, frog, lizard, tadpole and dragonfly.
Zuni Pueblo pottery is made
of clay that uses crushed pottery shards or rock to temper it,
which gives unfinished pottery a white color, almost like that
of ceramic clays. However, most Zuni pottery is coated with a
white or colored (usually red) slip and painted with black and
red paints.
