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THBMimbres Bichrome Bowl with Zoomorph
Lot 137
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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North America, Southwestern US, New Mexico, Mimbres Valley, ca. 950 to 1150 CE. A gorgeous pottery bowl hand-built via the traditional coil-and-scrape method. Adorned with black decoration on a creamy white ground, the elegant dish boasts a rounded yet stable base, an annular rim, and a deep basin. The center of the bowl features a carefully painted four-legged zoomorph exhibiting a fish-like form with a top fin, a fishtail, a target-shaped eye, a triangular gill, and embellished with latticework and checkered patterns reminiscent of fish scales. The periphery of the basin is encompassed by a lovely motif of three thick black bands followed by eight slender bands on the outer edge. This is part of the Mimbres (and larger Mogollon) tradition of iron-based, mineral-painted pottery. Archaeologists have found bowls like this one in funerary contexts, placed over the face/head of the deceased - and the "kill hole," the intentional puncture at the nadir of the bowl, has been posited as related to this use. Size: 10.25" W x 5" H (26 cm x 12.7 cm)
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 the remains of many Mimbres women have been found in burial sites accompanied by pottery making tools.
Provenance: private New Jersey, USA collection, acquired in August 1969; ex-King Family collection, Deming, New Mexico, USA
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#161561Repaired from several pieces with break lines visible in areas and some minor restorations from new material. Char marks on base. Minor orange stain on inner wall as shown. Expected chips to rim, as well as minor nicks and abrasions commensurate with age. Otherwise, very good with excellent remaining pigments.Condition
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