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Tripod Vessel Decorated with Headdress and Shield400–650 CE

Not on view
Ceramic tripod vessel with wide cylindrical bowl painted in sage green slip with red and brown glyphs, raised on four rectangular terracotta legs with cutout decoration
Ceramic tripod vessel with a flared cylindrical body resting on three hollow rectangular feet with cut-out openings. The body is painted with polychrome figural and geometric designs in red and gray-green on a light ground, now significantly worn. The interior and upper rim are blackened.
Ceramic tripod vessel with a flared cylindrical body resting on three hollow rectangular slab feet with cut-out openings. The body is painted with polychrome geometric and curvilinear designs in red and green on a light ground; the interior and upper rim are dark brown-black.
Ceramic tripod vessel with a wide cylindrical body on three rectangular legs, one featuring a carved openwork cross-shaped cutout. The exterior band is painted with geometric and serpentine motifs in red, green, and black on a pale ground, with some paint loss. The upper rim and interior are dark brown-black.
Ceramic tripod vessel with flared rim and cylindrical body, supported by three hollow rectangular legs with cut-out openings. Body retains traces of painted decoration in red and green against a light ground, now heavily worn and crackled. Lower section and legs in dark reddish-brown clay.
Ceramic tripod vessel with a flared cylindrical body, raised on three hollow rectangular red-clay feet with cut-out diamond openings. The body retains a cream slip decorated with faded red and green painted geometric and figural motifs, with visible surface cracking and pigment loss.
Ceramic footed vessel with cylindrical body resting on a dark red rectangular pedestal base with pierced geometric openings. The body is decorated with polychrome painted designs in red, green, and black on a cream ground, now heavily worn and flaking.
Ceramic footed vessel with a cylindrical body resting on a red-slipped tripod base with openwork cutout panels. The exterior is decorated with painted glyphs and geometric motifs in red, black, and pale green against a light ground, with visible crazing and wear. The interior is burnished dark black.
Title
Tripod Vessel Decorated with Headdress and Shield
Culture
Teotihuacan
Place Made
Mexico, Basin of Mexico,Teotihuacan
Date Made
400–650 CE
Medium
Stuccoed ceramic with post-fire stucco and pigment
Dimensions
Overall (Diameter): 5 3/4 × 6 3/8 in. (14.61 × 16.19 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Constance McCormick Fearing
Accession Number
AC1993.217.15
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Art of the Ancient Americas
Selected Bibliography
  • Conides, Cynthia. Made to Order: Painted Ceramics of Ancient Teotihuacan. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018.
  • Magaloni, Diana, Davide Domenici, and Alyce de Carteret. We Live in Painting: the Nature of Color in Mesoamerican Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2024.
Selected Exhibition History
  • The Painted City: Art from Teotihuacan. Saturday, March 29 - Sunday, December 7, 2014
  • The Painted City: Art from Teotihuacan. Saturday, March 29 - Sunday, December 7, 2014