WOW!  This is an exceptional fully designed jar Karen Abeita.  She is known for her traditional and innovative Hopi-Tewa pottery.  This jar has a wide shoulder and sloping sides.  It is painted with bee-weed (black) and two different colors of red clay slip and then traditionally fired.  Karen is known for her very intricately painted pottery. The shape of the jar is designed to reveal all the designs.  The jar is VERY tightly painted with interlocking shards that are very small.  Many of her shards would often be larger or encompass parts of the jar.  It’s exciting to see a piece that is fully designed and so perfectly painted.  Each of the shards has a different Hopi-Tewa design.  It’s always interesting to see about trying to identify the various designs on each of the shards.  There are lightly etched “edges” to each of the shards.   The piece was traditionally fired to create the blushes.  It is signed on the bottom in bee-weed, “Karen Abeita”.  It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration or repair.