Bowl with Rattle Base
900–1519
- Medium
- earthenware with colored slips
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 7.9 x 11 cm (3 1/8 x 4 5/16 in.); Overall: 8 cm (3 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- Ceramics
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Mexico, Cholula?, Mixteca-Puebla Style, 10th-16th century
About
The nobility may have used these goblets for a chocolate beverage or for pulque, made from the fermented sap of the maguey cactus. Both are painted with the precision and brilliant colors for which the Mixteca-Puebla style is renowned, and they carry some of the same motifs, such as the band of stylized animal heads at the top. The smaller bowl has a rattle base.