Navajo Polychrome Jar

Ida Sahmie

Marked Down $925.00
Gallery Price $1,450.00
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Title
Navajo Polychrome Jar
Artist
Ida Sahmie
Medium
Polychrome hand-formed pottery
Size
5 1/4" height x 4" diameter
Signed
"Ida Sahmie, 2001" and "Dine" incised in bottom
Date of creation
2001
Condition
Excellent
Description
Polished buff clay pot with figures painted in black, white, red and brown slips.
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About The Navajo Polychrome Jar

I challenge anyone to find a more elegant example of this woman's ultra-thin walled pottery online for this kind of a price!

Consigned by the estate of legendary pottery collector/ dealer, Richard Howard, of Santa Fe.

Marked Down from $1,115 to $925

About Ida Sahmie
Born on the Navajo reservation in 1960, Ida Sahmie was taught to weave rugs by her mother and grandmother. After marrying Andrew Sahmie, a Hopi man, and watching her in-laws make pottery, she too, began working in clay. Andrew is the great-grandson of Nampeyo, a name synonymous with Hopi pottery. Ida learned to work with the clay in the Hopi manner and style, but makes it uniquely her own by incorporating Navajo motifs, particularly Yeis, or Holy People, into the slip-painted designs.
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