2025-05 Jar with window-pane and long-leaf design
This jar is distinctive in contrary ways: 1) The shape is awkward; 2) It was slipped with white kaolin clay and has a red rim, reflecting an earlier Polacca ware tradition; 3) Its Sikyatki-Revival painting is not placed symmetrically and is longer than the...
2025-04: A simple utility ladle
1.625” width of handle. 0.4375” thickness of handle 0.125” thickness of bowl. 1.0” depth of bowl. This is a well-formed, simple, utility ladle by Edith Nash. She was active in the 1940’s through the 1970’s. This is not an exceptional ceramic, but is typical of the...
2025-03 Avian effigy pot of a Hopi penguin
This large effigy is more pot than bird, perhaps the image of a flightless Hopi penguin. It joins three other avian effigies in this collection: 1) 2019-06 by Michael Hawley, who was not Native, 2) 2020-08 by Bobbie Silas and 3) 2016-09 by Rachael Sahmie, Jean’s...
