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Tripod Vessel Depicting Blowgun Hunter400–550 CE

Not on view
Terracotta tripod vessel with wide cylindrical body painted in red slip with cream, green, and black figures and stylized human forms; rectangular openwork legs
Ceramic tripod vessel with flared cylindrical form, standing on three rectangular slab feet with cut-out perforations. Exterior painted in terracotta red, cream, and turquoise green with polychrome figural scenes depicting human and avian forms amid feathered or leaf-like elements.

Unknown, Tripod Vessel Depicting Blowgun Hunter, 400–550 CE, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Constance McCormick Fearing, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Tripod Vessel Depicting Blowgun Hunter
Culture
Teotihuacan
Place Made
Mexico, Basin of Mexico, Teotihuacan
Date Made
400–550 CE
Medium
Ceramic with post-fire stucco and pigments
Dimensions
LE Inventory: 5 3/8 × 5 3/4 in. (13.65 × 14.61 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Constance McCormick Fearing
Accession Number
AC1998.209.15
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Art of the Ancient Americas
Selected Bibliography

  • Robb, Matthew H., editor. Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2017.

  • Magaloni Kerpel, Diana, and Megan E. O'Neil, editors. The Science and Art of Maya Painted Ceramic Vessels: Contextualizing a Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022. https://www.archive.org/details/maya-painted-ceramic-vessels (accessed November 21, 2022).
  • Conides, Cynthia. Made to Order: Painted Ceramics of Ancient Teotihuacan. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018.
Selected Exhibition History
  • The Painted City: Art from Teotihuacan. Saturday, March 29 - Sunday, December 7, 2014

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