Hopi-Tewa Traditional Seed Jar in Plainware [SOLD]

Artistic talent certainly seems to run in families.  This jar is by Mark Tahbo, the great-grandson of famous Hopi potter Grace Chapella, and the grandson of her daughter Alma Tahbo.  His siblings are potters too.

Grace Chapella, of course, is famous for living to 106 years and continuing to make pottery past her 100th birthday.  Let's hope Mark does too.

Mark has been a consistent award winner at Santa Fe Indian Market.  In 1991, he won Overall Prize at Indian Market.  In 1992 he was awarded Best of Division at the Heard Museum Indian Fair. Awards continued to be presented to him in 1993 and 1994 and later.

One glance at this seed jar and one understands why he is such an award winner.  The jar was beautifully formed and burnished to perfection.  Mark chose to leave the jar in its undecorated beauty so that the viewer is subjected to the vessel shape and burnish, without distraction from a painted design.

Condition:  The jar is in original excellent condition.  It was completed in September 2017
Provenance:  this Hopi-Tewa Traditional Seed Jar in Plainware is from the artist
Recommended Reading:  Hopi-Tewa Pottery: 500 Artist Biographies by Gregory Schaaf