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2023-10 Cookie jar with folk art birds, side lugs and a lid
Jar is 6.5625” h X 7.5625” wide without lid or handles. The lid is 2.1875” high and 4.25" wide with a 3.1875” interior ring. Since as early as 1300 CE, when coal-fired Jeddito ware was widely traded,...
2023-09 Vintage jar with clown face & red moon celebration
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...
2023-08 Large Rick Dillingham–Rachael Sahmie collaboration pot
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...
2023-06 “Form #1” abstract sclupture
This collection contains one of the earliest pots made by Les (1994-09), which seems quite traditional in both form and design. His work grows from his Tewa-Hopi and Zuni heritage, but as his career evolved...
2023-05 Damaged pot with abstract design
This seedpot is exuberance. Abstract forms in black, red, white and grey swirl over its surface forming a dramatic crazy quilt. There are elements of Hopi design here, but the influence of Miro predominates....
2023-04 Two-shard pot with man lizard
The shards are 0.3125” thick. This pot consists of two shards displaying the results of shapeshifting between a lizard and a man. There is something both unsettling and alluring about bodily transformations...
