Featured in this lot is this Mata Ortiz badger pottery vessel by Andres Villalba. The pottery vessel features a wonderfully and professionally crafted ceramic construction that shows a beautifully crafted badger head mounted to a pot and features a polychrome decoration to the side walling and to the face of the badger. Mata Ortiz pottery is a recreation of the Mogollon pottery found in and around the archeological site of Casas Grandes (Paquimé) in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Named after the modern town of Mata Ortiz, which is near the archeological site, the style was propagated by Juan Quezada Celado. Quezada learned on his own to recreate this ancient pottery and then went on to update it. The condition of this pottery vessel is good with no obvious signs of damage and shows good overall condition. The measurements of this pottery vessel are 10 1/4" x 6 3/4" x 6 3/4"