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Tripod Vessel Depicting a Temple Atop a Shield and Crossed Darts400–650 CE

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Pre-Columbian ceramic tripod vessel with stucco-painted decoration in brick red, jade green, and cream, depicting Mesoamerican figures and geometric motifs, supported by three hollow slab legs with cut-out openings
Cylindrical ceramic tripod vessel with three hollow slab feet featuring cutout designs. Exterior painted in red, green, and white with a frontal zoomorphic face and feathered motifs in Teotihuacan style. Surface shows significant paint loss and restoration.
Ceramic tripod vessel with slightly flared cylindrical form, supported by three hollow slab feet with cutout openings. Painted exterior decoration in red, green, black, and white shows figural imagery amid geometric patterning. Surface shows significant flaking and restoration, with visible cracks across the body.
Ceramic tripod vessel with slightly flared rectangular form, standing on four carved red clay feet with openwork decoration. Surface bears heavily worn polychrome painted geometric patterning in dark gray, white, and traces of green against a reddish-brown ground.
Ceramic tripod vessel with cylindrical body supported on three slab feet with cutout geometric openings; heavily weathered surface retains traces of painted decoration in red, green, and cream showing a figural scene.
Ceramic tripod vessel with cylindrical body on three openwork feet, exterior painted in red-orange with polychrome figures and glyphs in green, white, and black; surface shows significant wear and flaking.
Polychrome ceramic tripod vessel with cylindrical body supported on three rectangular slab feet with openwork cutouts. Exterior painted in red, green, and white with a figural scene depicting a elaborately dressed figure wearing a feathered headdress, with geometric and stepped motifs. Surface shows flaking slip with areas of loss.
Title
Tripod Vessel Depicting a Temple Atop a Shield and Crossed Darts
Culture
Teotihuacan
Place Made
Mexico, Basin of Mexico, Teotihuacan
Date Made
400–650 CE
Medium
Stuccoed ceramic with postfire applied pigment
Dimensions
Height: 5 1/4 in. (13.34 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Constance McCormick Fearing
Accession Number
AC1998.209.13
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