North America, Southwestern United States, New Mexico, Mimbres Valley, ca. 950 to 1200 CE. A beautiful hand-built pottery bowl decorated with an enigmatic creature that might represent a beaver or similar rodent-like creature, painted in the center of the broad basin. The vessel rests on a rounded but stable base, the entire exterior surface is unpainted, and the plain hemispherical walls exhibit light gray firing clouds. The interior is slipped in white and solid, concentric bands of red/brown pigment Size: 8.875" W x 3.875" H (22.5 cm x 9.8 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.

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Provenance: Private Reinsmoen collection, Clear Lake, Iowa, acquired through descent from Robert Anderson, acquired prior to 2000

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#185037

Professorially repaired from about 10 pieces with overpainting on the breaks. Appears choice.