Vessel with skull motif

Vessel with skull motif, ceramic, height 16 cms., width 14 cms., Mexica/Aztec, c. 1325-1521 CE, Royal Museum of Art and History, Brussels.

The vessel was used to serve pulque and therefore belonged in a ritual context.

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. 296.

Photo by Ian Mursell/Mexicolore.