Navajo Micaceous Bowl with Freeform Rim [SOLD]

Christine McHorse (1948- ) Nofchissey is an innovative potter who successfully combines the techniques and materials of traditional pottery with contemporary non-traditional forms and firing methods. She uses micaceous clay taken from the mountains near Taos to hand build her vessels using the coil method.

Christine is Diné. She married into the Taos Pueblo heritage where she was introduced to the mica-speckled clay by her husband's grandmother, Lena Archuleta, who had a curio shop in Taos. Her first formal training began at the Institute of American Indian Arts, which she attended beginning at age 13, when the institute was still a high school. Today, Christine's work reveals an ingenious combination of innovation and tradition, typical of the finest Navajo crafts.

Christine achieves beauty through simplicity of design. Beauty and simplicity of form are the basis for her work. This bowl is evidence of her achievements.  The rim so very slightly curves downward as it rounds the bowl resulting in a terrace rim.

Condition: this Navajo Micaceous Bowl with Freeform Rim is in excellent original condition.

Provenance: from a family from Denver, Colorado

Recommended Reading: Pueblo and Navajo Contemporary Pottery and Directory of Artists by Guy Berger