Bowl with Pronghorn Antelope and Geometric Design
c. 1000–1150
Maker Unknown
Art of the Americas
Bowl with Pronghorn Antelope and Geometric Design, c. 1000–1150. Southwest, Mogollon, Mimbres, Pre-Contact Period, 11th-12th century. Earthenware; diameter: 31.2 cm (12 5/16 in.); overall: 12.5 x 32 cm (4 15/16 x 12 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1930.50 Mimbres painters achieved controlled lines with brushes made of the chewed ends of yucca leaves.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Formatted Medium
- earthenware
- Medium
- earthenware
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 31.2 cm (12 5/16 in.); Overall: 12.5 x 32 cm (4 15/16 x 12 5/8 in.)
- Departments
- Art of the Americas
- Accession Number
- 1930.50
- Credit Line
- Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund
- Exhibitions
- Sacred Symbols: Three Thousand Years of Native American Art [FRAME], Musee Fabre, Montpellier, France (7/16/2002 - 9/29/2002), Musee des Beaux-Arts, Rouen France (10/24/2002 - 1/13/2003), Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France (2/19/2003 - 4/28/2003), Musee des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, France (5/27/2003 - 8/18/2003), Minneapolis Institute of Arts (10/26/2003 - 1/11/2004): FRAME exhibition -- "Sacred Symbols: Three Thousand Years of Native American Art"
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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