Pitcher, ceramic, brown and cream glaze; National emblem of Mexico and animal and floral motif; Glazed "petatillo" ware (cross-hatched ground design resembles the "petate" (woven straw sleeping mat) used throughout rural Mexico; H 23.1 cm X 11.7 cm (rim)
Donor:
May N. Diaz
Collection place:
Tonala, Jalisco state, Mexico
Collector:
May N. Diaz
Collection date:
Summer 1960
Materials:
Glaze (coating by location)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Pitchers (vessels)
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
1961
Context of use:
Pitcher showing third stage in pottery manufacture. cf. 3-22582. Bottom stamped "Hecho por Pedro Chavez B. Tonala, Jal." The kind of pitcher that would be used for stirring chocolate (per Alejandro de Avila, 3-04)
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
height 23.1 centimeters and diameter 11.7 centimeters
Loans:
S1986-1987 #30: SFO Museum (April 21, 1987–June 11, 1987), S1994-1995 #5: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/E. Brumfiel (December 15, 1994–June 21, 1995), and S2010-2011 #8: SFO Museum (June 1, 2011–May 22, 2012)