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Bidding is now open for our Native American Art & Jewelry auction, Day 1 of our three-day December sale, featuring Navajo, Zuni and Hopi silver and turquoise jewelry, Navajo rugs, Pueblo pottery, baskets, kachinas and carvings. Highlights include a Toby Henderson sterling and turquoise kachina sculpture, a Victor Coochwytewa Hopi overlay cuff and an Anthony Lovato tufa cast cuff, alongside pieces by Lewis Lomay, Peter and Dinah Gasper, Emma Lewis and Lowell Talashoma Sr., and more. Auction is Tuesday, December 1st at 1 PM CST. Local pickup is December 7th, 8th and 9th from 1 to 5 PM at 5263 Edina Industrial Blvd, Edina, MN. Shipping is available on all lots.
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Lot 174

Loretta Navasie Koshiway Hopi-Tewa Polychrome Pottery Vessel

Estimate: $100 - $200
Starting Bid
$50

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $5
$50 $10
$250 $25
$1,000 $50
$2,000 $100
$4,000 $250
$10,000 $500
$20,000 $1,000
$50,000 $2,500
$100,000 $5,000
$500,000 $10,000

Signed on the bottom by the artist. 

 

Dimensions: 4 3/4" Diameter x 3" Tall 

 

Condition: Light wear to the hand-painted glaze. No chips or cracks. The vessel presents well and is in overall good condition. 

 

Artist Bio: Hopi-Tewa white ware begins with Paqua Naha, the first Frog Woman, who developed the white-slipped style shortly before her death and signed her pots with a frog. Her daughter Joy Navasie, the second Frog Woman, carried it forward until she retired in 1995, and Joy's daughters, Loretta Navasie Koshiway among them, have kept it going since.

Loretta, born in 1948, says she learned from her mother, though she grew up watching both women at work. White ware is the hardest of Hopi pottery to produce, and the Navasie family is known above all for it. Loretta paints in black and red over the white ground in the family manner, and like her sisters Marianne, Leona, Natelle and Grace she has kept the style alive after Joy. Her son, Charles Navasie, is a potter as well, taught by his grandmother Joy from the age of fifteen. This polychrome vessel is signed on the bottom by the artist.

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