Hopi Tewa Polychrome Pottery Jar with a Banded Design by Venora Silas [SOLD]
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- Category: Modern
- Origin: Hopi Pueblo, Hopituh Shi-nu-mu
- Medium: clay, pigment
- Size: 6-½” height x 6-⅝” diameter
- Item # C4223G SOLD
This Hopi-Tewa polychrome jar with a graceful shape was made by Venora Silas, daughter of Roberta Silas. She painted a design in a vertical banded layout pattern with each band divided into small squares. Each small square contains a design inspired by prehistoric Sikyatki pottery. A circle of six thin black concentric lines sit atop the design panel. The lines are crisscrossed with thin black lines.
Venona Silas is of Hopi-Tewa and Laguna Pueblo heritage. She has been an active potter since 1990. We have not yet determined a birth date but suspect she was born in the 1970s and is still an active potter.
Condition: very good condition
Provenance: from the collection of a gentleman from Northern New Mexico
Recommended Reading: Hopi-Tewa Pottery: 500 Artist Biographies by Greg Schaaf
Relative Links: Southwest Indian Pottery, Roberta Silas, Contemporary Pottery, Venora Silas
- Category: Modern
- Origin: Hopi Pueblo, Hopituh Shi-nu-mu
- Medium: clay, pigment
- Size: 6-½” height x 6-⅝” diameter
- Item # C4223G SOLD
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