This is an charming polychrome jar by Lois Gutierrez.  She is one of the few potters who continues to create polychrome pottery at Santa Clara.  Polychrome, or more than three different colors of clay slips, are all painted onto the surface of the vessel before it is fired. This jar has a wide shoulder and a sloping side.  There are two families of quail painted on the surface.  Below the shoulder are quail feathers.  The jar has SEVEN different colors of clay used to paint the designs.  Note the overall complexity of the design and all the various clay colors!  The jar was traditionally fired.  It is signed on the bottom, “Lois 2014”.