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Navajo Pottery

A very lovely vase by Madeline Naranjo of Santa Clara Pueblo.   It shows a Pueblo mother combing her daughter's hair and making pottery.   4 inches across and 3 inches high.   $450.  

Franklin Tenorio of Kewa Pueblo brought in this nifty bird bowl to our Santa Fe store.   He has been potting for only a couple years but is doing very nice work and making progressively larger pieces.   It measures 8 inches across and 4 inches deep.   $150.  

Top view of the bowl.  

This Zuni dish was made sometime between approximately 1920 and 1940.   There are deer on the outside of the dish and fawns (unusual to see portrayed) on the inside.   It measure 2.5 by 5.75 inches.   $220. (SOLD)

A stunning pottery jar by Joseph Latoma, from San Felipe pueblo.   A dedicated clay artist, he is constantly experimenting with the clays and minerals surrounding the pueblo - with impressive results.   The polished red slip is a deeper red than you will see on any other potter's vessels.   Joseph and his wife also build among the largest vessels of contemporary potters.   This particular one is 11 inches high and 13 inches across. $2400.  

These four small bowls were made by Franklin Tenorio of Santo Domingo Pueblo.   They average 4 inches across and 1.25 inches high,   $40 each.

Vickie Calabaza (b 1959) of Kewa Pueblo (formerly Santo Domingo Pueblo) began making pottery in 1982, taught by her grandmother Lupe Lovato Tenorio.   The larger bowl measures 2.5 inches high and 7 inches across, $110.   The two micaceous dishes are $32 and $25.   The $32 one is just over 3.5 inches across. The other three bowls are $25, $30 and $40, in order of ascending size.

This abstract sgraffito (surface carved) vase was made by Ed (Jemez) and Dena (Santo Domingo Pueblo) Yepa (at left).   4 inches high and 4.5 inches across.   $125.

Ricardo and Victoria Ortiz of San Felipe Pueblo made these two bird effigy bowls.   A potter for not quite five years, he was inspired to take up pottery-making by his grandmother, Candelaria Montano.   One is just over 5 inches high and the other just over 5 inches high.   Both are about 5.5 inches from beak to tail, $175 each.   He is one of about four potters from San Felipe.

Alan Lasiloo, an innovative young Zuni potter, made this bowl which was traditionally fired. The design motif is based upon a Zuni bird motif. Alan studied clay at IAIA then moved to California to study fashion design before returning to Zuni and clay. 8 inches across and 6 inches high. $675.