Iris Y Nampeyo corn cob pot

Large fine corn cob decorated pottery vessel signed Iris Y Nampeyo, no 1612-069, 130mm diam, 140mm high.
Iris Youvella Nampeyo is the daughter of the late Fannie Nampeyo, and grand-daughter to the legendary Sikyatki renaissance potter. Her cornstalk motif is her "trademark" design, and the vessel's non-uniform lip is unique to her pieces. Iris appears in nearly every major publication on Hopi pottery including Hopi-Tewa Pottery: 500 Artists Biographies by Gregory Schaff (p. 107), The Art of the Hopi by Jerry and Lois Jacka (p. 121), Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery by Rick Dillingham (p. 25), and The Legacy of a Master Potter: Nampeyo and Her Descendants by Mary Ellen and Laurence Blair (pp. 148, 236).