ORIGINAL ART: PLATE WITH SCORPION GODDESS AND HER DANCERS –  4,000 B.C.E.

The images on Laura Rose’s hand-thrown pots on this page are drawn from ancient art from all parts of the world. Each one give us a window into the hearts and minds of some of the most ancient ancestors that we can access through any language. There are very few examples of humans in the most ancient caves of Europe. In later eras, especially in Africa, we do find hunters within murals.

Small sculptures of women, such as a famous Venus of Willendorf, with large breasts and buttocks, were originally thought to be carvings made by women to beg for fertility. When women began to join the field of archaeology, they found so many of these figures stored in the basements of museums that they debunked that idea and postulated that these stones were actually representations of the goddess. In those times god was perceived more often as female.

It is still not clear what the original etchings of female forms meant on the cave walls. There were certainly many simple renderings of female sexual parts, but we will never know what the beginnings of graceful female figures were meant to mean beyond the stunning art that they are. They were probably part of spiritual practice and ritual, and newest thought connects them with the cycles of the moon and stars, possibly even the beginnings of astrology.

RAKU CAVE ART POTTERY FOR SALE by LAURA ROSE

• Raku is not for use with food or water and art is always best kept out of direct sunlight.
• The piece is designed to be complete as it is, but to use as a vase choose dried flowers or grasses, or insert a glass with water or small planter with an orchid.
• To purchase or commission a piece, contact the artist Laura Rose.

CURRENT INVENTORY:

TITLE: Scorpion Goddess ((#AW32)
ORIGIN: Plate from Iran, 2,000 – 3,000 B.C.E.
RAKU: approximately 11″ across by 9″ high
PRICE: 260.00
Shipping included in contiguous U.S.

 

TITLE: First Female Cave Art Nudes- (#PAW24)
Drawn from La Madelaine Caves, France 18,000 B.C.E.
RAKU: Approximately 8″tall by 11″ across
PRICE: 260.00
Shipping included in contiguous U.S.

 

TITLE: Human Love- (#PAW25)
Drawn from Gonnersdorf, Germany 11,500 B.C.E.
RAKU: Approximately 10″tall by 6″ across
PRICE: 220.00
Shipping included in contiguous U.S.

 

TITLE: Human Love- (#PBWW119)
Drawn from Gonnersdorf, Germany 11,500 B.C.E.
RAKU: Approximately 10″tall by 6″ across
PRICE: 220.00
Shipping included in contiguous U.S.