Lucas, Steve – Polychrome Jar with Butterfly Designs

9"w x 5"h

$ 3,300.00

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 jar has a wide shoulder and a short neck.  There are butterflies around the neck of the jar, with additional green and white clay slips.  Around the shoulder are more stylized butterflies, and here Steve has polished them with deep red and brown clay areas. The jar has numerous colorations of clay that accentuate the delicately painted lines.  Steve is one of the few Hopi-Tewa potters using so many colors in his work.  The piece was traditionally fired and has an elegant 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).  It is an innovative design on a classic form.