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This jar must be carefully examined before it is understood. Obviously it was broken into two pieces and is damaged. Surprisingly the form remains elegant and the design is almost unaffected by this damage. Linear elements create patterns of...
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Corn is at the core of Hopi life and no pot in the collection makes this statement more directly than this vase. A few pots in this collection depict painted images of corn (1999-10, 2010-08 and 2012-07) and other plainware pots have repose corn cobs (2006-03,...
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The width of the bowl is 9.375 inches. The lowest height is 2.6875 inches. The large size of this bowl is unusual, as is its shape. To my eyes its curvilinear design is the most powerful ever developed by Nampeyo, Priscilla’s great grandmother. Size,...
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This is a well-crafted bowl by a well-known artist (1888-1978) whose lineage is difficult to translate into American standard ancestry, and who thus remains a bit of a mystery. The collection contains three other pots by Lena: a large, faded and repaired bowl...
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This is an extraordinarily imperfect pot, with 12 pop outs, a hole in its base, uneven polishing and a couple of dark smudges from its outdoor firing. Nevertheless, this is a unique and historically-important vessel. It is also large, sensuously-shaped, and...
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Pot 2023-07 was part of a three-piece box lot I bought at auction, which reduced the attention I paid to the details of each piece. When I unpacked the pieces and saw the design on this pot more clearly, the energy was so great that it disturbed me. The design is...
