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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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Document identity
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128356
label
Pedestal Bowl
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128356
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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
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CC0
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language
en
wikidata
Q60752424
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Ceramic
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Diameter: 14.4 x 18.6 cm (5 11/16 x 7 5/16 in.); Overall: 14.6 cm (5 3/4 in.)
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Mexico, Cholula?, Mixteca-Puebla Style, 10th-16th century
accession
1951.317
Source extras
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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
creditline
John L. Severance Fund
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2026-05-29 06:37:40.291000
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128356
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Art of the Americas
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AA - Mesoamerica
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earthenware with colored slips
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