This is a thin-walled wide bowl by Jared Tso.  He is one of the rising stars of Native pottery.  He is a grandson of potter Faye Tso and his pottery is exceptionally refined in technique and traditional in style.  Each piece is coil-built from traditional native Navajo clay and traditionally fired.  This jar is one in a new series with multiple sharp shoulders.  Technically, they are interesting pieces as at each edge, to continue to build up, they round inward and then back out to the next shoulder!  This bowl has two sharp shoulders and then rounds up to the rim.  Interestingly, the interior is rough as it was scraped down with a corn cob to give it texture.  Note that even the flow of the interior texture is at an angle, much like the exterior is polished at an angle.  The bowl was traditionally fired and the blushes are exceptional, ranging from black to red to brown on both the inside and outside.  After the firing only the extieror was covered in pinon pitch.  It is exciting to see an artist find inspiration in the historic work, and, using the same clays, refine them in a modernistic manner.  The jar is signed, “Jared Tso”.