Bowl
Bowl

Currently not on view

Bowl with composite creature,

1000–1150

Mimbres
Classic Black-on-White (Style III)
2016-5

Information

Title
Bowl with composite creature
Dates

1000–1150

Medium
Ceramic with white and red-black slips
Dimensions
7 × diam. 16.8 cm (2 3/4 × 6 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Peter Jay Sharp, Class of 1952, Fund
Object Number
2016-5
Place Made

North America, United States, New Mexico, Mimbres valley

Period
Mimbres black-on-white
Type
bowls (vessels), ceramics
Materials
black pigment, red pigment, slip glaze, white pigment, slip, ceramic
Subject
fish, geometric patterns, mammals

Atlantic Art Partners I., LLC (SH284); 1990 George Shaw, Aspen, CO; <12/90 William Russell, Las Cruces, NM

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