Ceremonial jar Large Anaconda

Animal bodies juxtapose with stylized tropical jungle leaves and branches. When viewed as a whole from a greater distance, the jar resembles the lower half of a cocoa fruit in green color. The animals themselves do not have to dominate and are meant to evoke the atmosphere of heat, humidity and darkness of a tropical forest, where cocoa trees also grow, producing cocoa beans, from which this chocolate is made.

Technique: This jar has a partial glaze - only in the animal bodies is a glaze applied, which becomes shiny after a sharp firing and thus enables the final completion of the decoration using melting colors and then low-melting colors. In this case, in the first phase, after the pencil drawing on the so-called slag, the contour lines are covered with a melting color. The second stage includes the so-called salting - painting with metal chlorides. This is followed by glazing and firing at 1400˚C. Later, it is transferred to decoration with surface colors and listers at 750-800 °C.

Each piece is provided with the author's signature "BO.NO.2022" on the bottom of the jar between the so-called feet. From all the technological and craft procedures mentioned above, it is clear that this is an absolute hand-made and original creation - an author's work not only in terms of subject matter - content and theme, but also in terms of form - an atypical technological procedure and own processing. Academic painter Boris Nosek hereby guarantees the originality, originality and exclusive authorship of this work.