This seedpot has four square red designs set at an angle so that one point the square is cut off by the circular mouth of the jar. Set into each red design, and reflecting its overall shape, is a house-like image outlined and drawn in black paint. The overall red...
The design is a reproduction of the cover image of the catalog Historic Hopi Ceramics: The Thomas Keam Collection, by Wade and McChesney (1981). The cover image, in turn, is the linear projection of the design on a Polacca Polychrome Style D Revival pot (1890-1900),...
The pot has a very small footprint and it is polished both inside and out. The exterior is exceptionally smooth and finished with lard or wipe-and-glow. Like 2008-02 by Randall’s nephew, Doyle Chapella, the design is a simplified version of a Nampeyo design that was...
