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Bowl with a Pair of Avian-Fish Composite Creatures

Date:

1000–1130

Artist:

Mimbres (Style III)
Mimbres Valley, New Mexico, United States

About this artwork

Many Mimbres hemispherical bowls feature bilateral compositions with a diversity of animal, human, and composite figures. In this design, a bird and a fish are combined in a single symbolic form, perhaps corresponding to a poetic figure of speech or metaphor alluding to the forces of water and wind in the Mimbres worldview.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Arts of the Americas

Culture

Mimbres

Title

Bowl with a Pair of Avian-Fish Composite Creatures

Place

New Mexico (Object made in)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1000–1300

Medium

Earthenware with slip and paint

Dimensions

13.3 × 26.4 × 30.8 cm (5 1/4 × 10 3/8 × 12 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edward and Betty Harris

Reference Number

2004.1134

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