Anasazi Mimbres Bowl

Prehistoric Mimbres black on white pottery bowl. Designed with an all over tripartite geometric solid and fine line motif, two strap holes, restored. Exhibited: Decoding Mimbres Painting: Ancient Ceramics of the American Southwest, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, May 20 - December 2, 2018. Illustrated: Berlant, Tony, and Mauer, Evan, Decoding Mimbres Painting: Ancient Ceramics of the American Southwest, Prestel Publishing, New York, in association with LACMA, 2018, p. 53. "By comparing this bowl with the vessel on the opposite page (note: with stylized depictions of two hawkmoths), we can recognize abstracted moths rotating around a white circle, which may represent both the datura blossom and the trance state portal. The design also bears a resemblance to the geometric patterns seen on the wings of the white-lined sphinx moth (Hyles lineata)." This item is guaranteed to be of the time period and condition as described, has been exported legally and is legal to buy and sell under all international laws relating to cultural patrimony.