Description:

Native American, Southwestern US, Mimbres Valley, New Mexico, ca. 1000 to 1100 CE. A fine line pottery black-on-white bowl, made with coil and scraping techniques. The interior basin is painted with lines and bands that seem to overlap like basketry weaving, creating 4 quadrants, perhaps symbolizing the cardinal directions. 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 Mimbres women have been found in burials accompanied by pottery making tools. Size: 6.125" Diameter x 3" H (15.6 cm x 7.6 cm)

Provenance: private New Jersey, USA collection; ex-Too Moon Ranch collection

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#178852

  • Condition: Repaired and restored from large pieces with infill along breaks and rim. Nice preservation to pigments.

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