Frederica Antonio is renowned for her intricately painted pottery. Each piece is coil-built and then finely painted. Her designs are a series of fine vertical and horizontal lines which are then filled in to create larger images in the squares.  This jar has squares painted to represent corn. Each of the colorful sections is a different color of corn, representing a different direction. There are 8 corn panels above the shoulder and eight below, for a total of 16.  It is a colorful and visually dynamic jar!   The base of the jar is concave, reminiscent of historic Acoma jars that were carried on the head.  The jar is signed on the bottom, “F. V. Antonio”.