DepartmentLatin America

Barril

NamePot, jar, vessel

CultureMexican

Date19th century

Place madePuebla, Mexico, North America

MediumEarthenware with tin glaze and cobalt in-glaze decoration

Dimensions12 3/4 × 11 × 11 in. (32.4 × 28 × 28 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Houghton Sawyer Collection, A.1969.45.56

Object numberA.1969.45.56

Collections

DescriptionBarrel shaped. Hispano-Mauresque design elements during decline of quality in glaze and brushwork. Both surfaces glazed in cream, decoration in light and dark blue. Against a checkerboard of solid dark rectangles alternating with reserve white rectangles containing four-dot clusters appears a flying phoenix scene