Bowl with Rattle Base (c. 900–1519): Art, History and Details

Bowl with Rattle Base (c. 900–1519) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Bowl with Rattle Base
• Date: c. 900–1519
• Culture: Mexico, Cholula?, Mixteca-Puebla Style, 10th-16th century
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: 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.)
• Collection: AA - Mesoamerica
• Department: Art of the Americas
• Accession number: 1962.249

Collection credit

Bequest of Jane Taft Ingalls

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