Lucy M. Lewis is among the best-known Acoma potters for her pottery revival beginning in the 1950s.  This seedpot is round in shape and painted with bee-weed (black).  The top has a mountain and rain design.  The piece was traditionally fired so it has color variations on the surface.  IT is signed on the bottom “Lucy M. Lewis”.  It is in very good condition with no chips, cracks, restoration, or repair.  Certainly one of the classic pieces by this important matriarchal potter!

“There was a time a long time ago when Acoma pottery had almost died out. Lucy revived it, she kept it going. We saw photos of the Mimbres pottery for the first time in the late fifties. Lucy had been doing fine-line designs much earlier, from the sherds. She had developed several different ways of doing those lines. Some of her designs were similar to the Mimbres ones, and when she saw those she went on developing more of her own.” Dolores Lewis, Spoken Through Clay