Hopi Polychrome Small Dish signed Nampeyo [SOLD]

This dish is signed with the name Nampeyo in brown paint placed on at the time the bowl was made and before it was fired.  It is quite likely that Annie Healing signed her mother's name as Nampeyo did not write.

This vessel is an excellent example of her earliest work, in which an ancient Sikyatki bowl design has quite literally been copied. Its design is classically Sikyatki with its one third/two third division of the interior composition and visually abstract presentation of a geometric composition that could be celestial in concept.  Nampeyo was a master at placement of design to fit the surface area of a vessel and this is a compact presentation that perfectly fits the interior of the bowl.

Condition: original condition

Provenance: from a former Arizona collector of Hopi pottery

Recommended Reading: Nampeyo and Her Pottery by Barbara Kramer