2007 American Indian Art Auction

December 16, 2007Hilton Hotel, Santa Fe, NMGeneral Info | Terms & Conditions

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 Mimbres, Black-on-White Mimbres Figure Bowl

 4¼ by 7 by 7 inches Pottery 

 Unknown Artist art
 Lot 1103 

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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.