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Irma David’s pottery designs are often curvilinear with gaps between the elements. On this jar she has created space in her design to insert butterflies on opposite sides of the pot. Her designs are distinctive, perhaps because the dense curved designs create...
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1)The design on this bowl is exfoliated and worn; the jar itself is cracked. 2) The design is evidence of the genius of its maker, Nampeyo of Hano. Both statements are true, but the second is far more important than the first. For a collection that is trying to...
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The design on this bowl is organized into three panels, two narrow and one wider. I had trouble determining this pattern because the design elements seem crowded and frenetic: great energy packed between framing lines. The bottom of the pot carries the penciled number...
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Some Hopi pots are wonderful because of their shape and firing (1993-05, 1995-10 and 2022-02) and some excel because of their design (2014-07, 2014-15 and 2018-08), but this seedjar by Stetson Setella has both wonderful form and beautiful design. Rarely are the...
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Traditional Navajo pottery was utilitarian plainware (cf 1969-07), but with the expansion of roads into the reservation in the 1960’s, Navajo artists began making decorated pots that would appeal to collectors and tourists. Often a a humorous commentary of...
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Width includes 0.625″ high middle leaf. Early in her career as a potter, Iris made rather geometric and unusual pottery with her husband, Wallace Youvella (2017-11) but later focused on making pottery with applied corn motifs (2003-08). She seems to have...
