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Tafoya, Jennifer - Bowl with Mimbres Lizards (2009)
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Tafoya, Jennifer - Bowl with Mimbres Lizards (2009) 
Lucas, Steve – 10″ Wide “Four Seasons” Four Color Jar (Ribbon)
10"w x 7.25"h
$ 4,000.00
This is an intricately painted large jar by Steve Lucas. He is one of the leading Hopi-Tewa potters working today. Each piece is coil-built, stone-polished, painted with native clay slips and bee-weed (black), and traditionally fired. This jar has a wide shoulder and sloping top. The jar is entitled, “Four Seasons”. There are four medallions representing the four seasons. Each one is different. Separating them are diamond shapes with rain or cloud designs. The jar is painted with bee-weed (black) or polsihed red, green, or white clay sections. The side of the jar has stars representing the passage of time. The jar was traditionally fired to create blushes on the surface. It is signed on the bottom in the clay, “S. Lucas” and a mudhead (koyemsi) and an ear of corn (corn clan). There is a blue ribbon from the 2026 Gallup Ceremonials.
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This is a complex large jar by Steve Lucas. He is one of the leading Hopi-Tewa potters working today. Each piece is coil-built, stone-polished, painted with native clay slips and bee-weed (black), and traditionally fired. This jar has a wide shoulder and sloping top. The top of the jar has three old-style macaws near the rim. Macaw parrots are a part of Hopi culture, with a Parrot clan and Parrot katsina. The sides of the jar has very detailed designs with birds and katsinas. The katinsas faces and birds are all intermixed on the top of the jar. I’m always fascinated how Steve can minimalize various katsina faces into simple geometrics. The bottom has stippling with the little black dots. The jar was traditionally fired to create the blushes on the surface. It is signed on the bottom in the clay, “S. Lucas” and a mudhead (koyemsi) and an ear of corn (corn clan).
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Lucas, Steve (b. 1955)