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American Indian Art Auction 2007
   Sunday, December 16, 2007
Santa Fe, NM
Unknown Artist - Artist's Works
Lot 1103
"Mimbres, Black-on-White Mimbres Figure Bowl" by Unknown Artist
4 1/4 x 7 x 7 inches pottery

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c. 950 - 1150 A.D., of rounded form, painted on the interior aganist the chalky white slip, with an anthopomorphic fish figure, standing with splayed feet, exaggerted angular upper limbs, pronounced pallus, triangular back, and profile head with the ’masked’ eye, surmounted by a tall fishlike headdress, broad and fine parallel bands below the darkened rim; Peter Wary Collection, Phoenix, Arizona Provenance
Literature: Barbara J. Moulard, Within the Underworld Sky, Mimbres Ceramic Art in Context, Phoenix, 1981, pl. 15.


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