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    "localId": "128356",
    "label": "Pedestal Bowl",
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}

{
    "id": "128356",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Pedestal Bowl",
    "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.",
    "date": "c. 900–1519",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.317",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60752424"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.317/1951.317_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.317/1951.317_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 14.4 x 18.6 cm (5 11/16 x 7 5/16 in.); Overall: 14.6 cm (5 3/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Mexico, Cholula?, Mixteca-Puebla Style, 10th-16th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1951.317"
}

{
    "tec": "earthenware with colored slips",
    "tombstone": "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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1951.317",
    "collection": "AA - Mesoamerica",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "\"Illustrations.\" <em>Liturgical Arts</em> 23, no. 3 (May 1955): 101-120.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 103"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. <em>The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 76-77, no. 82"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Kubler, George. <em>The Art and Architecture of Ancient America: The Mexican, Maya, and Andean People</em>s. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1984.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 184-185, fig. 139"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Fields, Virginia M., John M. D. Pohl, Victoria Lyall, Alejandro de Ávila Blomberg, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Dallas Museum of Art. <em>Children of the Plumed Serpent: The Legacy of Quetzalcoatl in Ancient Mexico.</em> Los Angeles, CA, London, U.K., New York, NY: Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; in association with Scala Publishers ; Distributed outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in the Book trade by Antique Collectors’ Club, 2012.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 228, no. 108"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.317",
    "creditline": "John L. Severance Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:37:40.291000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.317/1951.317_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 128356,
    "dept": "Art of the Americas",
    "coll": "AA - Mesoamerica",
    "med": "earthenware with colored slips",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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