Cleveland Museum of Art
Pedestal Bowl
- Date
- c. 900–1519
- Medium
- earthenware with colored slips
- Culture
- Mexico, Cholula?, Mixteca-Puebla Style, 10th-16th century
- Department
- Art of the Americas
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
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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