Intricately Designed Hopi-Tewa Polychrome Pottery Seed Jar by Rondina Huma [SOLD]

The designs on this jar are miniature potsherds, each one in its own secure enclosure.  It is, of course, by famous Hopi-Tewa potter, Rondina Huma. The rim design consists of a series of boxes, each containing a maze surrounded by an orange enclosure.  Below the rim design is a band of parallel lines over which is a continuing line of zigzag lines. The body designs are those both from potsherds and from the fertile mind of Rondina Huma.  Just below the body design is a repeat of the parallel lines overlaid by zigzag lines. An orange circle outlined in dark brown pigment complets the design.

The jar is signed with the artist’s name and village on the underside.

Condition: this Intricately Designed Hopi-Tewa Polychrome Pottery Seed Jar by Rondina Huma is in very good condition

Provenance: Natalie Spitzer.  This pot includes an artist photograph (image presented here) and this pot is in the background to her right.

Recommended Reading: Hopi-Tewa Pottery: 500 Artist Biographies by Gregory and Angie Schaaf

Relative Links: Contemporary Pottery, Hopi Pueblo, Rondina Huma

Artist image source from original August 1977 photograph of Rondina Huma, Hopi Pueblo Potter