The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 30, 2023

Bowl with Geometric Design (Four-part Design)

c 1000– 1150

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

Ceramic

Overall: 12 x 28.8 cm (4 3/4 x 11 5/16 in.)

Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1930.39

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

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

Composing on a round surface challenges artists to use space without simply repeating circular motifs.

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 XLIV, figure 56, caption p. 70
Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1930.39