This bowl by Yvonne Lucas combines traditional designs and styles with a modern twist.  Yvonne is one of the few Laguna potters who uses all traditional materials and traditionally fires their pottery.  This bowl is polished with a red clay slip on top.  The plant designs with the intricate checkerboard patterns is painted with bee-weed (a plant) on top of the red clay slip.  The bottom of the bowl is slipped with a white clay. The black-on-red style is one that was seen at Laguna Pueblo around 1900.  This is Yvonne’s way of paying tribute to these pieces but also giving it her own modern style.  The bowl is signed on the bottom in the clay.