Lot 220C
Native American, Southwestern US, Mimbres Valley, New Mexico, Ancestral Puebloan people, ca. 1000 to 1250 CE, probably post-1100 in accordance with style. A deep pottery vessel, coil-made with a white slipped exterior and an interior walls decorated with intriguing design/iconography comprised of repeated ovoid shapes filled with checkered patterns emerging from the tondo (perhaps representing seeds or beans) and set against a diagonally striated ground. Size: 9.75" in diameter x 5.45" H (24.8 cm x 13.8 cm)
This is part of the Mimbres (and larger Mogollon) tradition of iron-based mineral painted decorated pottery. Although much of Mimbres pottery has zoomorphic decoration, there is also some like this that has geometric decoration that seems to have been inspired by other Southwestern imagery. Although the Mimbres have a very distinctive pottery tradition, there is no doubt that they had extensive contact with other peoples in the southwest. The Mimbres people occupied the mountain and river valleys of southwestern New Mexico; the name we know them by is from the Spanish word for the willows that grew alongside the river valleys. The artists responsible for creating pottery vessels like this were women, and many women have been found in burials accompanied by pottery making tools.
Provenance: Ex-Private Orange County, CA
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- Condition: Repaired from multiple pieces.
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