WOW!  This is a highly detailed large plate by Dolores Curran.  She continues to create intricately incised and painted pottery.  She was inspired to create these red polychrome incised and painted by her husband, Alvin Curran.  He was known for his incised San Juan-style pottery in the late 1990s.  This plate has a red polished rim.  The top half of the plate has 24 feathers in a fan across the piece.  The center has a red polished star. The bottom half has birds and flowers incised into the clay and highlighted with various clay slips.  The red polished rim is also painted with cloud and rain designs on half of the plate.  The back of the plate is incised with a classic feather design.  There are 16 feathers incised into the clay.  They are each slipped with mica. The plate was traditionally fired to create the coloration.   All the colorations are from natural clay slips.  It is an extraordinary amount of time to create pieces intricate both in design and to use the various clay additions.   The plate is signed in the clay, “Dolores Curran”.