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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 4281097, member: 45&quot;]Yes, it is an actual micaceous pottery piece, from Taos Pueblo, in New Mexico.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>All wedding vases, however, were made for sale as a souvenir item.&nbsp; There is no documented example of any made before 1900, when the form was invented by John Candelario, an early Santa Fe curio dealer. He took the idea to Santa Clara potters and had them make the design to sell in his shop. He added the invented story and the name &quot;wedding vase&quot; to help sales. Since then, they have been made by many Indian tribes, as well as non-Indians, and today are even made in China and Mexico.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yellow Flower was making pots with leaves in the 1970s, but this could date a little earlier, since the twisted handles have been around since the 1930s, and her later pots tended to have a more polished finish, according to Allan Hayes.&nbsp; His book has the pot in post #10 pictured, but I am unfamiliar with Yellow Flower, and do not know the dates she was making pottery.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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