This is a lidded 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 is round and carved with clouds around the neck.  The central band has a complex avanyu encircling the piece.  There are small clouds along the back of the avanyu.  Above the avanyu are incised polychrome areas with swirling Pueblo birds and bird feathers.  The designs are incised into the clay and then highlighted with clay slips and note how even in the incised areas she has added red clay! Below the shoulder, the jar is fully polished red and painted red-on-red with cloud, rain, and feather designs.  The lid is a micaceous slipped bear with an incised heartline.  The top of the lid has similar cloud carvings as the top of the jar.  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”.