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Bowl Depicting a Bird with Outstretched Wings
Cibola (Cibola region, east-central Arizona, United States)
1300–1400
- Medium
- Ceramic and pigment
- Classification
- Ceramics
- Dimensions
- 14 × 30.8 cm (5 1/2 × 12 1/8 in.)
- Culture
- Arizona
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Gift of Edward and Betty Harris
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
From the 13th century through the start of the 17th, new polychrome ceramic traditions developed in the Cibola region of western New Mexico and east-central Arizona. Although each ceramic style was distinct, they were closely related in that they all were painted using black, white and red pigments and feature a single, bold motif. A large abstracted bird with outstretched wings fills the interior of this Four Mile Polychrome bowl.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
