Tripod dish

Tripod dish, ceramic, pigment, Mexica (Aztec), c.1350-1521 CE, height 13 cms., diameter 29 cms., Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City.

This plate is one of the most beautiful Aztec ceramics in existence. Food was served to the nobility on finely-worked plates like this one. They were found in places of sacrifice, as they were also used as offerings for the gods.

From Aztecs, eds. Doris Kurella, Martin Berger and Inés de Castro, with INAH, Mexico - catalogue for the exhibition Azteken, Linden Museum, Stuttgart, Hirmer Publishers, Germany, 2019, p. 315.

Photo by Ian Mursell/Mexicolore.