This is a large polychrome bowl 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 bowl is coil-built, stone- polished and painted with various colors of clay slip.  The bowl has a complex design on the polished surface. There are areas of corn, rain clouds, and prayer feathers as the design.  The designs are outlined with black clay and there is an orange clay used to accent the designs.  The imagery is detailed and fluid across the surface.  After it was painted, it was traditionally fired.  The bowl is signed on the bottom, “Blue Corn, San Ildefonso.”  It is in very good condition with no chips, cracks, restoration, or repair.  There is one small area of fugitive black on one side, or maybe a wear.