This bowl by Grace Medicine Flower is fully carved and polished.  It is an early piece of her pottery before she began doing the sgraffito work in the late 1960s.  The bowl has eight petals on the flower.  They extend from the rim to the shoulder. Each petal is deeply carved and the entire piece is fully polished.  The bowl is fired a deep black.  It is signed on the bottom in the clay, “Grace Medicine Flower”.  It is in very good condition with no chips, cracks, restoration or repair.