Margaret Lou Gutierrez was a daughter of noted potters Tonita & Juan Roybal.  She began making pottery in the 1970s. This bowl is very highly polished and has a sharp shoulder and sloping side.  The piece is painted with a mesa, cloud, and rain design.  It’s a complex pattern painted on a highly polished surface.  The bowl is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration, or repair.  It is signed on the bottom in the clay, “Margaret Lou Gutierrez”.