Mark Tahbo Hopi-Tewa Plainware Jar [SOLD]

Mark Tahbo 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 small 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.

The clay was burnished in horizontal strokes which provides light reflective properties.  Additionally, the burnishing was continued on the inside of the rim to a depth of about an inch. The potter signed the jar with his hallmark tobacco pipe placed on the inside of the jar.

Condition: new

Provenance: from the artist

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