Corn Pot With Quails

back side

front side

Corn Pot with Quails (size 12 7/8”h x 7 ½”w)

The corn and husks are overlay in bass relief. Below the corn starts a row of spinning and zigzag clouds the meanders up and down and around the pot finally ending in a large curving cloud design. Also painted on the pot are quails and a flower, a rainstorm pattern, a corn bug, rainbows, and a cloud person on a cloud house. It is a tall slender delicate piece that has a cloud shaped tapered rim and is made of a stone polished marbleized clay.

Unusual square plate (size 11 ¼” w diagonally x 1 ¼” h)

The one on the left is that of an intricate rug design that is a rain cloud pattern as Navajos see designs in nature. Surrounding this rainstorm pattern is a rainbow guardian crisscrossed with clouds. On the corners of the rainbow are triangular shaped clouds. There are also cloud shaped emergences breaks in the rainbows as on most pots or baskets or rugs so the spirit or mind of the artist would not get entrapped within the design.

The other plate is a the Summer Thunder Plate (size 13”w x 2 ¾”h). The central figure of this plate is a Big Summer Thunder, or some might call it a thunder bird. He has a ceremonial hat decorated with clouds and various kinds of feathers. He has cloud bangs, and rainbow striped hair. His trunk and wings are decorated on the inside with the night time sky of stars and flashing zig-zag male lightning that are edged by rainbow stripes. Flashes of lightening flash from his wings, head, and knees. From under his wings also hang waterspouts and flashing lightning. He has a rainbow striped tail and legs and cloud feet. From the bottom of his tail hangs the design that represents the sounds of thunder. Above the Summer thunder is a tapering row of zig-zag lightening and below is a tapered rainbow guardian crossed with lightening and clouds. The rim of the plate is decorated on opposite sides with cut-in designs of stair-stepped shaped clouds. This plate also is made of stone polished marbleized clay.

(16 5/8” x 11 1/8” w) and (3/4”h x 7 ¼”)

Two rippled pots

The very large, tall red pot (size16 5/8” x 11 1/8” w) is one made of a special clay that contains lots of mica, a sparkly mineral related to fools gold that is quite difficult to refine, work with, and polish. But the results are quite stunning. This unusual pot is called a Female Squash Blossom Pot because the rim is like the petals of a squash blossom only it has cloud designs in the petals and below the blossom is a rippled squash shape like a real female squash blossom has. From the very bottom of the pot to the neck it was coiled up and scraped into ripples which is especially hard to do with this kind of clay. This pot has a first place ribbon on it for the best piece of pottery at the Totah Festival in Farmington, New Mexico.

The other rippled pot with the rippled rim (size 9 3/4”h x 7 ¼”) is called the Marbleized Ripple Pot. It is of marbleized clay made by mixing two colors of clay together when the clay was beaten. It took a long time for Lucy to figure out how to mix the colors together and still be able to stone polish it without smearing the colors together. There are all kinds of shapes and pictures in the marbleized clay depending on the imagination of whoever looks at the pot. To Lucy there are clouds, mesas, buttes, twisted cedar trees etc. It came out kind of wild. Around the bottom is a row of red clouds to frame the marbleized designs. Also the inside was slipped red for helping to frame the designs and give contrast.

Two dippers and an eagle in flight effigy. The two dippers would make excellent wall or rearview mirror hangings

The dipper with the terraced cloud shaped handle has a sun mask painted on it (size 5 ½”length x 4” width).

The gourd shaped dipper has a bug hunting quail and a sunflower painted on it. (size 6 ½” length x 4”width)

The Eagle in Flight is a small version of an eagle effigy pot that she usually makes. It is built on a small stand. (size 3 7/8”h x 3 ½”w x 6 3/8” length)

Three small pots

Four dippers

Spinning Cloud Dipper with the Twisted Handle 9 ½” L x 4 ¾”w

Wedding Basket Design Dipper with Cloud Handle 7 1/2” L x 4 3/4”w

Sunmask Dipper with Cloud Handle 7” L x 4 ½” w

Wedding Basket Design dipper with Tear Shaped Handle 7 5/8”L x 5 ½”w

Two rattle mugs

They rattle because they both have double bottoms that Lucy put little clay balls between so when the mugs are shaken they rattle. She once saw a Mesa Verde mug made in this manner. Rattle Mug with Interwoven Cloud Designs 5 7/8” h x 6”w, Rattle Mug with Spinning Clouds 5 ½”h x 6 1/4”w

The Square Rug Design Plate with Rainstorm Pattern 1 ¼”h x 11 ¼” w (corner to corner)

Rug Design Dipper

Cloud Handle 6 ½”L x 5 ½ “w