Cherokee Blackware Friendship Pattern Plate by Joel Queen (Eastern Cherokee)

This stunning blackware plate from Joel Queen is decorated with a beautifully carved, cross-hatched design known as the friendship pattern. This design resembles a woven basket, showing how the lives of friends are interwoven, but also, seen from above as in this plate, forms a flower.

Joel digs and prepares his clay according to his own formula for his blackware, which he fires outdoors with horse manure and pine. Also known for his traditional Cherokee pottery, raku, wood carvings and baskets, he is a member of the Bigmeat family, who have making pottery for eight generations.

Diameter 17", comes with metal stand.