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Post by fumobici on Jul 20, 2021 1:51:59 GMT
The first cow sign is absolutely wonderful. I want one! Yeah, that sign is genius.
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Post by tod2 on Jul 21, 2021 14:31:24 GMT
Those little cows are so cute - we only have live ones across the road. Oh, but we did call in at a Farmers supply store today where they had a black and white plastic cow guarding the entrance! Is that type of animal called a Friesland ??
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 22, 2021 6:11:43 GMT
My question about the cemetery was entirely fair if one supposes, as I do, that everyone closely reads all the text in all my threads & takes careful notes. There is a cemetery in the last two photos of reply #11 of this thread. Those pictures were taken only a couple of weeks after Muertos & you can see that the living have already forgotten about it. Signs here are almost always a trip, especially since there is always some misspelling to decipher, as on the side of the happy cow. Tod, your cow was bigger than my cows! They could be Friesland cows. I was looking at all of the cow stuff & idly wondering what the black & white cows are called. Then I remembered that I know nothing about cows.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 22, 2021 6:40:31 GMT
Do you mean Friesian cows?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 22, 2021 7:18:50 GMT
Obviously you are asking the wrong two women, Mick. We're simply not cow girls.
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Post by lugg on Jul 22, 2021 22:11:51 GMT
Thank you for this up date Bixa - its a great place to re-visit. Yes the cow sign is great but I am equally impressed with the cow cup and its contents. Yes, I did compulsively set them all upright after getting the picture. Haha I thought the same. Black and white cows that look like the ones in Bixas photos I know as Holstein / Holstein Friesians , in the UK they are mainly dairy cattle but not sure about their use in Mexico. I wonder what piece ( pieces ) you were drawn to Bixa? I have just had a quick look and my eye was caught by the vases similar to this www.facebook.com/Galer%C3%ADa-de-Arte-Peguero-Garc%C3%ADa-1856059608055893/photos/pcb.2847205112274666/2847205028941341/
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 22, 2021 23:50:41 GMT
Great minds, Lugg, great minds. Holstein might have been one of my guesses, from my tiny store of cattle terminology. I don't know if they're dairy or beef cattle here, but my guess is that the owner acquired a whole bunch of plastic black & white cows & the rest is history. Anyway, do we eat cows, or just steers? You have a good eye. I believe that vase may have been made by Leticia García Blanco, mother of Fernando Perguero. She is the lady who showed us around the larger of the two galleries, and is the loveliest, most gracious person imaginable. I looked up the vase's price for you, if you're curious: £39.73. I have tried to find a picture of the piece I liked so much, or at least one that was similar, with no luck. This is a frustrating picture, because I know for a fact that it is shown in the photo (4th step down, right back), but the picture is too little & blurry to see my lovely preferred piece. It is a stylized, very attenuated woman rising from a sort of bell-shaped skirt. Her head is a big semi broken beak. That family is famous for its ceramics: www.fofa.us/ceramics/terracotta
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Post by lugg on Jul 23, 2021 22:36:05 GMT
I looked up the vase's price for you, if you're curious: £39.73. That seems undervalued for such a lovely piece, and, I guess, such a lot of work. The link ( clicking on the pic) does not work for me .
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 24, 2021 1:18:50 GMT
The price is 1,100 in pesos -- makes it sound expensive! So much of the craft items here really do seem undervalued for the amount of time & work that goes into them. Lugg, that's a fiddly site. If you want to try to get to it the long way, click here: www.fofa.us/Then hover your mouse over "Oaxaca's Folk Arts" (third from left in banner items at top of page). Select "Meet the artists", which is the first thing in the drop-down menu. Scroll down & click on "Ceramics". On the new page, click on "Meet the artists" under "Terracotta". Now go fix yourself a nice cold drink & rest before proceeding.
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Post by lugg on Jul 24, 2021 20:37:17 GMT
If you want to try to get to it the long way, click here: www.fofa.us/Then hover your mouse over "Oaxaca's Folk Arts" (third from left in banner items at top of page). Got there but still could not find the piece you liked so much But anyway I really enjoyed looking through all the various links, not just the ceramics; so many talented craftsmen
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 24, 2021 21:38:06 GMT
Oh, the link was just to see the families from Atzompa who create ceramics & pottery. Glad you looked at the other stuff, as that is so much what Oaxaca is about ..................... as you'll see when you come here.
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