Folk Art Butterfly Design, Tile
This collection has more than two dozen pots carrying images of butterflies. (See “Category” list.) Its easy to love these flying flowers, but in addition, butterflies at Hopi are a sign that rain has fallen, the desert is blooming and there is hope for...
Folk Art Butterfly Design
This is a simple, elegant and peaceful jar. The five lobes on the jar are formed by pushing out the walls of the wet clay vessel. The smooth exterior feels sensuous in the hands. The widest diameter of the jar is 5 times the size of the small 1.3125” base, thus the...
Folk Art Butterfly Design
This jar rises off a small base at a steep angle to past its mid-point, continues vertically, and then curves inward to form a shoulder that rises to a short neck. On either side of the pot where the shoulder begins are two slots that allow a leather strap to be...
Folk Art Butterfly Design
This is the “classic” Grace Chapella design for which she is best known. Rick Dillingham features her family (and therefore this butterfly design) in his Fourteen Families book (1994, 2-13). As noted in the description for pot 2010-22 (a Grace pot with a similar...
Folk Art Butterfly Design
This is a gem of a miniature pot. Bulbous at the bottom, it has a narrow waste that flares out to a trumpet-shaped mouth. The inside is slipped with yellow clay (that turns red when fired) and the interior has been stone-polished almost to the bottom. The shape and...
Folk Art Butterfly Design
The design on pot 2010-10 is the iconic Grace Chapella design. The 1977 catalog of a pottery exhibit held in her honor shows her holding such a pot (Collins 1977:9). On the website of the collection I publish a photograph of a Grace Chapella pot with this same design...
