The lot features a beautiful vintage Hopi polychrome yellowware pottery jar from artist Karen Kahe Charley (b. 1951, Hopi-Tewa). The pottery piece is signed on the bottom by Karen with her KCC and shows a classic highly detailed polychrome design she is known for with a squatted jar having a nice raised and flaring rim opening. Karen Kahe-Charley was born in 1951 into the Butterfly / Badger Clan in the village of Sichomovi at First Mesa. She was taught the art of traditional pottery making by her mother, Marcella Kahe. After having three children during the 1970’s, she began producing pottery. Karen has exhibited at the Santa Fe Indian Market and the Museum of Northern Arizona’s Hopi Show. Over the years she earned Best of Show, Best of Division and Best Traditional Pottery honors at both. She has also had exhibitions at Harvard and Yale and her work is part of the permanent collections of the Heard Museum in Phoenix, AZ, and the Northern Arizona Museum in Flagstaff, AZ. She signs her work with a butterfly design and the letters, "KKC". One of her sisters was Ramona Ami. The jar is well kept with no major damages and measures 6.75-inch diameter by 3-inches high.