For your consideration is this Mata Ortiz, polychrome painted clay pottery vessel by artist, Jose Villa. The pottery vessel shows expert craftsmanship, displaying polychrome painted outside walls of red and black natural dyes and figural painted deer symmetrically placed throughout with geometric patterns decorating in between the paintings of the deer. The artist’s signature is on the bottom of the pot. 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. The condition of this pottery vessel is good, with no obvious signs of damage. The measurements of this pottery vessel are 7" x 5 1/2" x 5 1/2".