Dominique Toya is known for her intricately carved pottery with sharply ridged melon swirls.  She has created her distinctive style of pottery using native clay and micaceous clay slips for the surface.  This jar is oval in shape.  Half of the piece is polished a deep red. The remainder has eight deeply carved ribs that swirl from the rim to the base.  They are slipped with a copper color of mica.  It is a striking contrast between the polished and matte surfaces.  It is signed on the bottom, “Dominique Toya”.  Dominique has won numerous awards for her pottery and continues to be one of the leading Jemez potters working today!