This is a creative polychrome 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 clay slip.  The shape has a sharp shoulder and a sloping neck.  The piece is polished a gray-white coloration.  It is painted with just one coloration of clay, creating a brown-on-white coloration.  I have seen several of Blue Corn’s pieces in this coloration and heard she created them after visiting Chaco Canyon.  She wanted to create her own modern version of their “black-and-white” pottery.  While not as colorful as some, the detail and precision of the designs are striking.  The jar has 32 feathers around the shoulder. Along the neck is a checkerboard pattern that is filled in to create cloud designs. It is a creative use of form and design to create her own modern “Chaco” pottery!  The piece has some color variation on the surface from the traditional firing. It is signed on the bottom, “Blue Corn, San Ildefonso.”  It is in very good condition with no chips, cracks, restoration, or repair.