Pedestal Dish with Serpent Handles
Artist
Unknown Artist
CultureMixtec
OriginCholula, Puebla, Mexico
PeriodPostclassic Period (1000-1521)
Date1325-1520
MediumEarthenware, white slip, pigment, and hand-built.
DimensionsOverall: 13.5 x 19 cm (5 5/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
DescriptionCholula pedestal dish, Postclassic period, with slightly flaring cylindrical body, the sides with projecting rectangular rattles. The exterior painted in pale orange, brown, and cream with band of scrolls above elaborate tassels of geometric motifs.
Credit LineGift of George and Helen Gardiner
Object numberG83.1.97
Classifications
Ancient AmericasSub-classification
MesoamericaStatus
On view
Artist / Maker: Unknown Artist
300 BCE - 300 CE
Object number: G83.1.43.1 - 2
Artist / Maker: Unknown Artist
300 BCE - 300 CE
Object number: G83.1.59
Artist / Maker: Unknown Artist
1200-1400
Object number: G83.1.147
Artist / Maker: Unknown Artist
600-900
Object number: G83.1.83
