The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 28, 2023

Bowl with Geometric Design (Four- part Stepped- Fret Design)

c 1000–1150

Southwest, Mogollan, Mimbres, Pre-Contact Period, 11th-12th century

Ceramic

Diameter: 11.4 x 25.4 cm (4 1/2 x 10 in.)

Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1930.37

Find spot: Cameron Creek Village, Grant County, New Mexico

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

The Mimbres people pierced holes in fine bowls before burying them as offerings.

Provenance
1920s
Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM, 1930, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
1930
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Citations
Bradfield, Wesley. Cameron Creek Village, A Site in the Mimbres Area in Grant County, New Mexico. [Santa Fe, N.M.]: [The School of American Research], 1931. Plate XLVI, figure 422, caption p. 104
Exhibition history

The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-August 22, 1982).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1930.37