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Tripod Vessel Depicting Figure in Butterfly Headdress and Mountain Motif300–450 CE

Not on view
Ceramic tripod vessel with wide cylindrical body painted with polychrome geometric and mask motifs in red, green, and yellow over a cream slip, heavily worn and reconstructed from fragments, on three hollow rectangular feet with diamond cutouts
Cylindrical ceramic tripod vessel with hollow slab feet featuring cut-out geometric openings. Exterior painted with polychrome figures in red, green, yellow, and white, including a frontal masked face at center, with significant paint loss and visible cracks.
Title
Tripod Vessel Depicting Figure in Butterfly Headdress and Mountain Motif
Culture
Teotihuacan
Place Made
Mexico, Basin of Mexico, Teotihuacan
Date Made
300–450 CE
Medium
Stuccoed ceramic with post-fire applied pigments
Dimensions
LE Inventory: 6 1/2 × 6 5/8 in. (16.51 × 16.83 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Constance McCormick Fearing
Accession Number
AC1998.209.16.2
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Art of the Ancient Americas
Selected Bibliography
  • 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
  • The Painted City: Art from Teotihuacan. Saturday, March 29 - Sunday, December 7, 2014