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<p>[QUOTE="Taupou, post: 9710557, member: 45"]Actually the signature doesn't really match. If you look carefully on the pot with the painted signature, there appears to be 3 "A's" not 2 in the last name, and the spider image isn't included.</p><p><br /></p><p>Which brings up another issue, which I should have mentioned in my earlier post. Hopi potters don't incise their names on their pottery. Especially after the pot is fired, as appears was done in this case. If incised before the pot was fired (which is how incised signatures are traditionally made) it would have a slightly darker look, unlike the stark white of the fired clay.</p><p><br /></p><p>The pot itself is carefully made and decorated, but the traditional firing turned it into what a traditional Hopi potter would consider a "second" and unsalable.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe someone thought it worthy, at least, of a lesser well-known potter's "signature." </p><p><br /></p><p>All I can say is that it is definitely Hopi, traditionally fired, and made by a potter who had experience and craftsmanship. But the questions surrounding it do raise some issues.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Taupou, post: 9710557, member: 45"]Actually the signature doesn't really match. If you look carefully on the pot with the painted signature, there appears to be 3 "A's" not 2 in the last name, and the spider image isn't included. Which brings up another issue, which I should have mentioned in my earlier post. Hopi potters don't incise their names on their pottery. Especially after the pot is fired, as appears was done in this case. If incised before the pot was fired (which is how incised signatures are traditionally made) it would have a slightly darker look, unlike the stark white of the fired clay. The pot itself is carefully made and decorated, but the traditional firing turned it into what a traditional Hopi potter would consider a "second" and unsalable. Maybe someone thought it worthy, at least, of a lesser well-known potter's "signature." All I can say is that it is definitely Hopi, traditionally fired, and made by a potter who had experience and craftsmanship. But the questions surrounding it do raise some issues.[/QUOTE]
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