Water Container
Baule
1900–1950
- Medium
- Blackened terracotta, wash, and kaolin
- Dimensions
- 33.7 × 39.4 cm (13 1/4 × 15 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- ceramics
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
kaolinmodeling (forming)vesselceramicscontainerbauleafrican Artarts of AfricahouseholdCoastal West Africaincisingceramicvessel for serving drinkshand-modelingcontainersterracottaBeauty
About
Well-made pots like this thin-walled water container are appreciated for the beauty they bring to a living space. Baule potters learn to produce such dark-colored, wide-bodied pots for a variety of household uses by proceeding from observation and imitation to formal education. To embellish the vessel displayed here, a potter etched lines into its body and highlighted them with kaolin (a clay mineral).
