Tripod Vessel with Mold-Made Heads200–500 CE

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Title: Tripod Vessel with Mold-Made Heads
Culture: Teotihuacan
Place Made: Mexico, Teotihuacan
Date Made: 200–500 CE
Medium: Thin Orange ceramic
Dimensions: 4 13/16 x 17 in. (12.07 x 43.18 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Constance McCormick Fearing
Accession Number: M.86.311.31
Classification: Ceramics
Collecting Area: Art of the Ancient Americas
Curatorial Notes: Thin Orange is a special clay matrix used to manufacture extraordinarily thin-walled vessels in Tepexi de Rodríguez in the southern part of the state of Puebla. Imported into Teotihuacan, they are a signature part of that city’s ceramic tradition.

2008
Selected Bibliography: Berrin, Kathleen and Esther Pasztory. Teotihuacan: Art from the City of the Gods. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1993.
Townsend, Jen and Renée Zettle-Sterling. Cast: Art and Objects Made Using Humanity's Most Transformational Process. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2017.

Not on view

Title: Tripod Vessel with Mold-Made Heads
Culture: Teotihuacan
Place Made: Mexico, Teotihuacan
Date Made: 200–500 CE
Medium: Thin Orange ceramic
Dimensions: 4 13/16 x 17 in. (12.07 x 43.18 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Constance McCormick Fearing
Accession Number: M.86.311.31
Classification: Ceramics
Collecting Area: Art of the Ancient Americas
Curatorial Notes: Thin Orange is a special clay matrix used to manufacture extraordinarily thin-walled vessels in Tepexi de Rodríguez in the southern part of the state of Puebla. Imported into Teotihuacan, they are a signature part of that city’s ceramic tradition.

2008
Selected Bibliography: Berrin, Kathleen and Esther Pasztory. Teotihuacan: Art from the City of the Gods. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1993.
Townsend, Jen and Renée Zettle-Sterling. Cast: Art and Objects Made Using Humanity's Most Transformational Process. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2017.