Quotskuyva, Dextra – Small Fine-Line Shards and Faces Bowl (1980s)

3.5"w x 2"h

$ 1,800.00

This is a detailed small bowl by Dextra Quotskuyva.  She is certainly one of the great innovators among Hopi-Tewa potters.  Her work began with more classic imagery and then evolved over the years to more unique and stylized designs. This bowl is from the 1980s.  It has a round shoulder and sloping side. The top is fully painted with bee-weed and polished red clay areas.  The bowl has fine-line interlocking sections.  Separating them are small triangular sections with painted faces!  It is a highly detailed and complex piece for the size.  Dextra was famous for her VERY thin lines used to paint her pottery.  This bowl was traditionally fired to create subtle colorations on the surface of the piece.  The bowl is signed on the bottom in the clay, “Dextra” and an ear of corn, as she was Corn Clan.  It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration or repair.  Dextra has been the subject of a retrospective of her pottery at the Wheelwright called “Painted Perfection“.