The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 24, 2023

Bowl with Lizard (?)

c 1000– 1150

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

Ceramic

Overall: 9.5 x 22.5 cm (3 3/4 x 8 7/8 in.)

Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1930.46

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

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

The Mimbres produced a small range of colors by manipulating firing temperatures, not with different pigments.

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 LXXIV, figure 200, caption p. 83
Exhibition history

Mansfield Arts Center, Ohio (March 7 - April 4, 1993) "Art of the First Nations"

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1930.46