The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of January 20, 2020

Pedestal Bowl

c. 900-1519

Mexico, Cholula?, Mixteca-Puebla Style, 10th-16th century

Earthenware with colored slips

Diameter: 14.4 x 18.6 cm (5 11/16 x 7 5/16 in.); Overall: 14.6 cm (5 3/4 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1951.317

Location

233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region

Description

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.

Exhibition history

Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; June 29-September 5, 1982. "The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from The Cleveland Museum of Art," exh. cat. no. 82, repr. in black and white, p. 76.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA (4/1/2012 - 7/1/2012): 'Children of the Plumed Serpent: The Legacy of Quetzalcoatl in Ancient Mexico"

The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 30-September 5, 1982).

Children of the Plumed Serpent: The Legacy of Quetzalcoatl in Ancient Mexico. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (organizer) (April 1-July 1, 2012).

Source URL: https://cmaweb23-bbn-2.clevelandart.org/art/1951.317