Magnificent Square Mouthed Polychrome Jar
Marianne Navasie
- Marked Down $800.00
- Gallery Price $1,600.00
- Title
- Magnificent Square Mouthed Polychrome Jar
- Artist
- Marianne Navasie
- Medium
- Hand-coiled polychrome pottery
- Size
- 11 1/2" height X 11" maximum diameter
- Signed
- with Frog and tadpole and "M." in slip underneath
- Condition
- Excellent to good, as second photo shows mild smearing of slip on one side
- Provenance
- Ju Fu
- About The Magnificent Square Mouthed Polychrome Jar
Graceful curvilinear motifs echo this jar's gentle shape. Feathers floating through the air, wafting on nature's breezes, come to mind.
- About Marianne Navasie
- (1951-2007) A member of the Kachina Clan, this Tewa artist has been actively creating pottery from the 1970's forward. She is the granddaughter of the First Frog Woman; daughter of Joy Navasie, wife of Jim Harrison. Marianne Navasie typically signed her pottery with a frog and tadpole symbol.Navasie respected traditional clay gathering and firing, fashioning her creations using coils of hand-formed clay ropes.She is cited in all major books referencing potters from Hopi. Her awards stem from her participation in American Indian Art Fairs throughout the Southwest.
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