Huma, Rondina – Bowl with Mini-Shard Designs and Butterfly Design Rim (2005)
$ 4,800.00
WOW! This is a very detailed jar by Rondina Huma from 2005. She has certainly been one of the most influential Hopi potters working today. Since her two-time “Best of Show” awards at Santa Fe Indian Market, her tight style and intricately painted pottery have changed the face of contemporary Hopi pottery. Each piece is coil-built, fully stone-polished, and painted with native clays and bee-weed (black), and native fired. This fully painted bowl is from 2005, which she was at her peak the VERY tiny shards on her pottery. Rondina said of this style of her pottery:
“This style is when I first started designing from the bottom to the top. I would get a bunch of sherds and I would put them together and see what pattern they created. Then I would take back the sherds to where I found them. I also polish the inside of all my pottery. People ask how I do it and how I can get so deep inside. I just think it makes a bowl look nicer if it is fully polished. I do most of the painting freehand. When I look at a pot, I already know what design I’m going to put on there. I can visualize what I’m going to paint, and it is never the same. I don’t really use a pencil—I’m afraid it won’t come off. I try to just measure with my hand to space out the designs.” Rondina Huma, Spoken Through Clay
The bowl has a round body and a sloping neck. The neck is painted with two styles of butterfly designs with the separation of a mesa pattern. Below is one back of shard and her triangular mountains. The body of the jar is painted in square and diamond bands that are slipped with a deep burgundy colored clay. Each of the small square shards has a different design. They extend from the shoulder to the base. The designs are painted with bee-weed and the deep red areas are also stone-polished. The inside of the bowl is also fully polished. This bowl has an amazing amount of line work! The early 2000s were some of Rondina’s most intricate pieces, and this is certainly one of them. It is tightly painted and striking in person! It was traditionally fired to create the blushes on the surface. The bowl is signed on the bottom in the clay, “Rondina Huma”. It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration, or repair. A great-sized piece with exceptional painting!
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WOW! This is a very detailed jar by Rondina Huma from 2005. She has certainly been one of the most influential Hopi potters working today. Since her two-time “Best of Show” awards at Santa Fe Indian Market, her tight style and intricately painted pottery have changed the face of contemporary Hopi pottery. Each piece is coil-built, fully stone-polished, and painted with native clays and bee-weed (black), and native fired. This fully painted bowl is from 2005, which she was at her peak the VERY tiny shards on her pottery. Rondina said of this style of her pottery:
“This style is when I first started designing from the bottom to the top. I would get a bunch of sherds and I would put them together and see what pattern they created. Then I would take back the sherds to where I found them. I also polish the inside of all my pottery. People ask how I do it and how I can get so deep inside. I just think it makes a bowl look nicer if it is fully polished. I do most of the painting freehand. When I look at a pot, I already know what design I’m going to put on there. I can visualize what I’m going to paint, and it is never the same. I don’t really use a pencil—I’m afraid it won’t come off. I try to just measure with my hand to space out the designs.” Rondina Huma, Spoken Through Clay
The bowl has a round body and a sloping neck. The neck is painted with two styles of butterfly designs with the separation of a mesa pattern. Below is one back of shard and her triangular mountains. The body of the jar is painted in square and diamond bands that are slipped with a deep burgundy colored clay. Each of the small square shards has a different design. They extend from the shoulder to the base. The designs are painted with bee-weed and the deep red areas are also stone-polished. The inside of the bowl is also fully polished. This bowl has an amazing amount of line work! The early 2000s were some of Rondina’s most intricate pieces, and this is certainly one of them. It is tightly painted and striking in person! It was traditionally fired to create the blushes on the surface. The bowl is signed on the bottom in the clay, “Rondina Huma”. It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration, or repair. A great-sized piece with exceptional painting!
Rondina Huma