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Pedestal Bowl
c. 900-1519
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
The nobility may have used these goblets for a chocolate beverage or for pulque, made from the fermented sap of the maguey cactus. Both are painted with the precision and brilliant colors for which the Mixteca-Puebla style is renowned, and they carry some of the same motifs, such as the band of stylized animal heads at the top. The smaller bowl has a rattle base.
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Details
- Title: Pedestal Bowl
- Date Created: c. 900-1519
- Physical Dimensions: Diameter: 14.4 x 18.6 cm (5 11/16 x 7 5/16 in.); Overall: 14.6 cm (5 3/4 in.)
- Type: Ceramic
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.317
- Medium: earthenware with colored slips
- Department: Art of the Americas
- Culture: Mexico, Cholula?, Mixteca-Puebla Style, 10th-16th century
- Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund
- Collection: AA - Mesoamerica
- Accession Number: 1951.317
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