This is a striking polychrome long-neck jar by Blue Corn.  She is often best known for her polychrome pottery and her creative use of various clay slips on her pottery. She learned to make pottery from Maria Martinez at San Ildefonso.  This jar is coil-built, stone- polished and painted with various colors of clay slip.  The shape has a low shoulder and an elongated neck with a fully polished brown coloration.  The designs were painted with clays before the piece was fired. Around the body of the jar is an avanyu.  Above the shoulder are 33 feathers.  Along the neck are rain and cloud designs with a checkerboard pattern around the rim of the jar.  The size, complexity of design, and colorations are all striking in person!  After it was painted it was traditionally fired. The jar is signed on the bottom, “Blue Corn, San Ildefonso.”  It is in very good condition with no chips, cracks, restoration, or repair.