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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 286815, member: 45&quot;]Agree with the signature, but there is no indication at all that this is Native American.&nbsp; Southwest souvenir pottery, maybe.&nbsp; The clay, technique, and decoration are certainly not characteristic of any traditional Native American pottery.</p><p><br /></p><p>The wedding vase form itself has been credited to a Santa Fe curio dealer, John Candelario, who got Santa Clara potters to make some for him to sell to tourists in his shop, along with a fabricated story about it being a &quot;wedding vase&quot; used in &quot;ceremonies.&quot;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There is absolutely no truth behind the story, and no documented examples of the form even existing before the early 1900s, when he first started selling them.&nbsp; But now it has become an iconic &quot;Indian&quot; symbol, made not only by Native American (and other) potters, but by factories world-wide, including those in China.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since this looks fairly recent in style, the potter would have included a tribal affiliation in the signature, if there were one.&nbsp; Without tribal affiliation, it cannot be sold as &quot;Native American.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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