Pre-Hispanic Collection
Usulutan tripod bowl
IDAEH Cultural Property No. 1.2.118.0391
Category Pots and Containers
01 Photograph Gallery
Photo credits: Jesús Alejandro González Córdova
02 Object Information
- Description
Usulután tripod bowl in orange on cream.
The exterior and interior surfaces are decorated with negative painting, forming curved and straight lines using the lost-wax casting technique.
The vessel has a rounded lip, a reinforced rim, curved-converging walls, a convex bottom, and mammiform supports. One of the supports has a missing fragment at the tip.
*Former APECUGUA Collection (Association for the Study of Guatemalan Culture); voluntarily donated to La Ruta Maya Foundation in 2023
- Period
- POSTCLASSIC (AD 900-1520)
- Provenance
- Pacific Coast of Guatemala
- Medium / Material
- Clay
- Technique
- Grooving, Modeled, Painting, Perforation
- Dimensions
Height: 10.5 cm
Diameter: 18 cm
03 References and Exhibitions
- References to similar objects
- Exhibitions
On display at the Museum of Cultures of the South Coast, on the South Campus of the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa, Escuintla.
- Publications
