2021-05 Blessing jar
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...
2021-04 Monument Valley vase with 3-D figures
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...
2021-03 Plainware vase with large corn appliqué
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...
