Hopi Pueblo Undecorated Polished Orange Slip Bowl

This bowl was made from traditional Hopi clay.  It was stone polished to a high luster and left without application of design.  It is a style bowl made for daily use in a Hopi household.  It is signed Susie.

Susie Youvella was a marvelous potter, always forming her vessels with utmost care. She routinely made the walls of her vessels the thinnest possible.  Susie was a member of the Kachina Clan and lived atop First Mesa in the village of Sichomovi. She was one of the few potters of Hopi origin, not of the Hopi-Tewa of First Mesa.She was the mother of Hopi potter Wallace Youvella, who, with his wife, Iris Nampeyo, won many awards for creative pottery.

Condition: very good condition

Provenance: this Hopi Pueblo Undecorated Polished Orange Slip Bowl is from the collection of Alexander E. Anthony, Jr.

Reference: Hopi-Tewa Pottery: 500 Artist Biographies by Gregory Schaaf.

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