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EXQUISITE MIMBRES DEER BOWL - C. 1100AD ANASAZI browse these categories for related items... All Items: Native American: Pre 1492: item #659444 Please refer to our stock #X3 when inquiring.
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Offered here is a truly wonderful classic Mimbres bowl with a perfectly executed powerful image of a deer. This Deer bowl is late Mimbres C. 1100AD (indicated by the three top bands on the inside) and the bowl measures 10" x 4.8", broken and glued with "Santa Fe Style" restoration (which means the bulk of the cracks on the inside have minor filling). The slip is very white and the paint is darker than the photos tend to show. There are three small pieces 100% in the white field behind the deer's rump which are patched (can see in photo #56); one tiny piece also in the white field in front of the mouth and a piece almost solely in the horizontal lines within the body of the deer which had been the kill. It was patched so the eye would not just go to the center hole. This was purchased by a major Arizona collector in the group about seven years ago for an allocated price of $19,000. At the Santa Fe Antique Indian Art Show, August 2006 this bowl was offered by another dealer for sale at $22,000.00. I recently purchased, as part of a larger collection, this bowl from the owner who bought it seven years ago so I can offer it at a much better price. The restoration, which can be reversed without harm, is minor and was done to enhance the aesthetic values since it is such a wonderful and powerful image. At $22,000 it was priced at full retail; here at $15,000.00 it is a very fair, almost wholesale price. |
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