Huma, Rondina – Wedding Vase with Geometric Patterns

5"w x 9"h

$ 9,800.00

Rondina Huma has certainly been one of the most influential Hopi potters working today.  Since her “Best of Show” award at Santa Fe Indian Market in the early 1990’s, her tight style and intricately painted pottery has 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 is one of her few wedding vases and it is from around 2005.  It is a larger piece of her pottery and it is fully stone polished.  The designs are then painted onto the surface using red and burgundy clay slips.  The red areas are stone polished while the burgundy areas are matte and unpolihsed.  The designs are a series of “shard” patterns which are very tightly painted.  Rondina says that she tries to not duplicate the same “shard” patterns on the same vessel!  The tight patterns have become more and more intricate and detailed in each passing year.  It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration or repair.