Navajo Polychrome Jar
Ida Sahmie
- Marked Down $925.00
- Gallery Price $1,450.00
- 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.
- 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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