Maya / Tetrapod Bowl / 2nd?1st century B.C.

Maya
Tetrapod Bowl
2nd?1st century B.C.
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Creator Nationality: North American; Central American; Mesoamerican; Mayan
Creator Name-CRT: Maya
Title: Tetrapod Bowl
View: Principal view
Creation Start Date: 0
Creation End Date: 0
Creation Date: 2nd?1st century B.C.
Creation Place: Guatemala or El Salvador
Object Type: Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Materials and Techniques: ceramic
Dimensions: H. 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)
Description: This bowl is part of a group of ceramic vessels called Usulután based on superficial resemblances in surface decoration. The technique employed here, termed "resist," results in a two-color patterning. The method of achieving the color separation differs within the Usulután group and, in some instances, is yet to be understood . Usulután vessels were made during the centuries before and after the turn of the first millennium?a period of innovation in ceramic form and decoration?in the southernmost part of the Maya highlands (southeastern Guatemala, western Honduras, and El Salvador). They were widely disbursed from there. Archaeologists have long thought that the distribution of Usulután vessels was tied to the migrations of peoples or perhaps to invasions. More recently, it has been proposed that these ceramics were much admired in their time and thus widely traded. The present example sits on four small feet, early evidence of what would later become a fascination with substantive, elaborated feet on bowls of all sorts.
AMICA Contributor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: New York, New York
ID Number: 1982.207.5
Credit Line: Gift of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1982
Copyright: Copyright ? 2002 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. All rights reserved.
Rights: http://www.metmuseum.org/education/er_photo_lib.asp
AMICA ID: MMA_.1982.207.5
AMICA Library Year: 2002
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright (c) 2002 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. All Rights Reserved

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