Price Reduction! Polychrome Jar With Heartline Deer [SOLD]

The owner has authorized us to reduce the price as shown (from $4,500.00).

Those who knew Lucy or at least are familiar with her pottery will recognize this Black-on-white jar with heartline deer as one of her personal favorite designs and a favorite of many collectors.

This jar is signed Lucy M. Lewis Acoma N.M. 1973. There was an earlier time when Lucy did not sign her pots, identifying them only by their place of origin: Acoma, N. M. or Sky City, N. M. At that time, Lucy sold her pots from a roadside stand on Route 66 for as little as a dollar or two. Today, they command thousands of dollars.

Lucy continued throughout her life to make pots in the traditional way; digging and preparing clay, grinding potshards for temper; coiling the clay into a vessel shape, making her paints from plant and mineral elements, and firing the finished vessels in an open outdoor hand made kiln.

Provenance: From a private collector in Germany. Published in Indianische Kunst im 20.Jahrhundert. Herausgegeban von Gerhard Hoffman. Prestel-Verlag München. 1985.