This is a very detailed polychrome jar 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 jar has an elongated shape and a polished neck and base.  The red polished areas have red-on-red painted designs.  The top band of design on the jar has eight sections of design. There are flowers and birds slipped with various colors of clay.  Below are larger designed sections.  There are rainbows with tiny rain clouds above them. The rainbows are each different in color.  Below are sections, each with a stylized hummingbird and flower. Interestingly, Dolores was starting on this piece during our Indian Market show in 2024 (see last photo) and she FINALLY had it finished in January of this year.  That is certainly a reflection of how long it takes to make a piece of this complexity.  The jar has a lid with an incised bird and prayer feathers on top.  It is a complex and tightly incised piece with a colorful appearance.  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 jar is signed on the bottom in the clay, “Dolores Curran”.

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