Steve Lucas 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.  Steve has won “Best of Show” at Santa Fe Indian Market and his work remains some of the most refined and creative.  This large jar is a stunning piece of his pottery in form and design. The jar has round shoulders and a slightly sloping neck.  It has a very complicated design with four eagle or bird tails extending toward the shoulder.  Below are bird wings and bird tails.  The black is bee-weed and there are red, white, and brow clay slips that are also used and polished.  The design is striking and complex in design and color.  The piece was traditionally fired and has a dynamic coloration from the firing.  It is signed on the bottom in the clay, “S. Lucas” and a mudhead (koyemsi) and an ear of corn (corn clan).  Spectacular!