Barbara & Joseph Cerno are known for their large coil built vessels.  This smaller encapsulates the best of their shapes and designs.  The jar is a  classic Acoma water jar shape.  The jar is very thin walled and first slipped with a white clay.  The jar is painted with three parrots on the sides.  Surrounding the parrots are flower and rainbow designs. Above the parrots are three smaller birds with flowers and plant motifs.  The black is all bee-weed (a plant) and there two different colors of red (red and orange-red) which are used paint the designs and some of the areas are stone polished.  The jar is traditionally fired with some blushes on the inside.  The jar has a striking flow and complexity of imagery on the jar.  It was made in 2005.  It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration or repair.    Barbara & Joseph remain among the most renown contemporary Acoma potters for their revival of historic patterns.