Two Tripod Dishes

1000-1450 (Late Postclassic)

18.6 cm 20.5 cm 20.8 cm

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The misnamed "lacquerware" is an artistic accomplishment of the Postclassic Period, having been developed in the Mixteca- Puebla region east and south of the Valley of Mexico. Aztec nobility preferred this hard and shiny-surfaced, slip-painted earthenware for their food-servic...

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Private collection, New York; Ron Messick Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John G. Bourne, June 8, 1998, by purchase; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 2017.
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