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 of the jar is etched with 84 angular feathers and cloud designs.  There are additional cloud designs painted on the rim of the jar!  Along the shoulder is an avanyu and below are plants.  The base has painted water designs. The lid has a flat top and a raised stopper. There is a carved star along with painted prayer feathers along the rim.  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”.

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