Blue Corn was one of the great innovative San Ildefonso potters of the late 1900s.  She is often best known for her polychrome pottery but began her career making black pottery.  This bowl is from the 1970s. It is very highly stone polished to a glossy shine.  The top of the bowl is very tightly painted with 47 feathers.  It is a design that encircles the entire piece. It was traditionally fired a deep glassy black.  It is signed in the clay, “Blue Corn”.   The bowl is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration, or repair.

Blue Corn: All the Colors of the Clay