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Multi-Lobed Tripod Bowl with Incised Deities

Date

1200-1521

Creator

Unrecorded Mixtec artist

Location

Raclin Murphy Museum of Art

This is an example of a Postclassic Mixteca-Puebla ceramic vessel. These vessels are known for their striking red-on-white coloring. Bernal Díaz del Castillo, one of the Spanish invaders, wrote of the "very good vessels of red, dark and white clay, with diverse paintings" made in and around Cholula, in Puebla, Mexico. The upper band of this vessel has depictions of a figure who might represent Ehecatl, the wind god, identifiable due to the conical headdress with feathers and abstracted representation of a duck-billed mask, although that identification is more tenuous.

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This is an example of a Postclassic Mixteca-Puebla ceramic vessel. These vessels are known for their striking red-on-white coloring. Bernal Díaz del Castillo, one of the Spanish invaders, wrote of the "very good vessels of red, dark and white clay, with diverse paintings" made in and around Cholula, in Puebla, Mexico. The upper band of this vessel has depictions of a figure who might represent Ehecatl, the wind god, identifiable due to the conical headdress with feathers and abstracted representation of a duck-billed mask, although that identification is more tenuous.
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Unrecorded Mixtec artist
1200-1521
Vessels
Slipped and painted ceramic
2004.014.048
Raclin Murphy Museum: 205
6 3/4 x 8 x 8 in. (17.15 x 20.32 x 20.32 cm)
Anthony and Janet Unruh Fund

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