This is a classic Zia jar with a lid by Elizabeth Medina.  She is known for her traditional style of Zia pottery.  Each piece is coil built, painted with native clays, and native fired.  This jar is an elegant shape with a low shoulder and elongated neck.  The jar has two large birds on either side.  The birds are polished both red and tan.  Below them are swirling clouds and a sun design.  Note the thin lines and how the designs accentuate the water jar form.  The jar has a lid with plant and cloud designs.  There is a bear on the top.  This jar is an earlier piece of her lidded pottery from the 1980s.  Typical of her work it is fluid in design and elegant in form.  The jar signed on the bottom, “Elizabeth Medina, Zia”.  It is in very good condition with no chips, cracks, restoration, or repair.