Author: Lyn Fox

Large and, well, delicious large dough with numerous rich and etherial fire clouds, the interior too has great patina and red painted highlights. This is great bowl! Condition: excellent with ethnographic wear Provenance: an Espanola, NM collector, collected early in the 20th century by the owner’s grand-mother

Unadorned tan exterior with fire clouds and beautifully stone polished interior; simple and elegant with interior highlights from natural firing.  Rarely seen simple utilitarian serving bowl; simple, classic and beautiful. Provenance: From a Durango, CO collector Condition: Very good with tight, unrestored crack

Warm, funky, wonderful jar, stone polished and a little cattywampus. Birds have crazy wings and crazier tails. On the bottom is written in pencil: “From Aunt Mary, made by Tausuki Indians, a small tribe living near Santa Fe, NM, Sept. 1909”. Also a note inside explains that Aunt Mary, born around 1850, was a missionary … Read More

Superb large example in exemplary condition; winner of the Blue Ribbon in pottery at the 1976 Indian Arts and Craft Show in Chicago (ribbon included). Margaret adapted the classic Tewa water jar form and employed her signature bear paw, double rainbow bands, slightly flared rim and high polish to make it her own. Then by … Read More

Magnificently large, this jar may be one of the last of it’s kind. It is too large to have been made for a still emerging tourist trade, predating Fedex and bubble wrap; yet, from a time when such jars were no longer being made for home use and the skill to create such an object … Read More

I purchased this wonderful early Nampeyo bowl from my friend and mentor Martha Hopkins Struever, a Nampeyo pottery expert. This bowl comes with an attribution letter by Marti and I quote from a draft of that here.  “A pottery bowl black on cream by Nampeyo, Hano. A classic “food bowl” style;  painting (is) a Sikyatki … Read More

Very rarely do I see these old utilitarian forms from Picuris, a small pueblo on the high road to Taos. Picuris’ relative isolation kept it from ever being a major tourist destination for pottery. So little tea pots like this are most unusual. All the more remarkable is the still intact (minus a minor chip) … Read More

With traditional 6 pointed star design and the bowl bottom painted red, this is a bowl on a grand scale.There are great patterns of use including piñon pine pitch repairs, native repairs. There is a wide band at the bottom, indicative perhaps of 19th century origin. Condition excellent with old patinated rim chip and native repair

Acquired by the Street family for their gallery Streets of Taos, (which we now proudly occupy) in the 1950’s, this piece was purchased on the pueblo from the Martinez gallery, run by Maria’s son Popovi Da. It is unsigned, perhaps because Maria was trying for red, bur the jar fired what, to us, is clearly … Read More