Six Nation-Mohawk Pottery by Sylvia Smith with Wampum Bead Design

Description

For Sale is a Bud Vase by Sylvia Smith, it is an
Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) hand-thrown Mohawk Pottery Bud Vase.
During the late 1960’s a group from the Six Nations of the Grand River (Ontario) resurrected traditional Iroquois pottery forms and designs and established the Mohawk Pottery. The studio (co-operative) used a brown wash rather than a glaze on the outside of their pieces so that the items would look like ancient, smoke-cured pottery. This vase is incised top to bottom with traditional, geometric designs in the dark brown wash. The inside is glazed in a shade of
Blue. Sylvia Smith’s initials, Syl S, are incised on the bottom of this piece, along with the flint and feather logo [the letters SN (for Six Nations) inside a flint arrowhead, superimposed over a feather]. Six Nations pottery is found in the Canadian Museum of Civilization and is respected by many collectors, both public and private.
Size is approx. 6" H x 5" w