This is an elegant, wide-shoulder jar by Dolores Curran.  She continues to create intricately incised and painted pottery.  Her husband, Alvin Curran, inspired her to create these red polychrome incised and painted.  He was known for his incised San Juan-style pottery in the late 1990s.  This jar has a wide shoulder and short neck.  The rim and base are fully polished red.  The neck and base of the jar has etched flowers.  The top of the shoulder has an avanyu etched into the clay.  Note how the back fins of the avanyu are matte, which Dolores said was to create the idea of the avanyu moving through the water.  The flowers are intricate and perfectly incised into the clay  This is one of her pieces that has an extraordinary amount of incised designs on the surface!  It also combines incised, carved, painted, polished, and micaceous areas.  Both lid and jar were traditionally fired. It is an extraordinary amount of time to create intricate pieces in design and use the various clay additions.   The jar is signed on the bottom in the clay, “Dolores Curran”.  It has a blue ribbon from the 2026 Gallup Ceremonials.