三脚架鸟碗 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	三脚架鸟碗
品名（英）	Tripod Bird Bowl
入馆年号	1984年，1984.614a, b
策展部门	迈克尔·洛克菲勒之翼（The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing）
创作者
创作年份	公元 200 - 公元 400
创作地区	危地马拉（Guatemala）
分类	陶瓷容器（Ceramics-Containers）
尺寸	高 9 3/4 x 宽 7 3/8英寸 (24.8 x 18.7厘米)
介绍（中）	玛雅低地的一种受欢迎的船只类型是热带鸟形状的船只，也许是鸬鹚，目的是用喙捕捉鱼。这只鸟的额头上标有一个圆盘，可能描绘了一面镜子。鸟的细节呈现在盖子上，它的头部形成旋钮，翅膀展开到盖子的广阔空间上。鱼被三维渲染，小心翼翼地握在宽大的鸟喙中。盖子下面的碗形成了鸟的身体。在主题的单色版本中，如图所示，细节被切割;在彩色示例中，它们是多色的。这个主题的象征意义尚不清楚，尽管它在许多不同鸟碗类型的盖子上保持不变，从没有脚的鸟碗到四脚的例子。由于这些碗在一些墓葬中被发现，主题可能与死亡和/或来世有关，或者更简单地说，与容器的假定内容有关。
介绍（英）	A favored vessel type of the Maya lowlands was one made in the shape of a tropical bird, perhaps a cormorant, in the act of catching a fish in its beak. The bird's forehead is marked with a disk, probably depicting a mirror. Details of the bird are rendered on the lid, where its head forms the knob and its wings spread out onto the expanse of the lid. The fish is rendered three-dimensionally, carefully held in the wide bird beak. The bowl beneath the lid forms the body of the bird. In monochrome versions of the theme, as seen here, details are incised; in polychrome examples, they are multicolored. The symbolic meaning of the theme is not clear, even though it remains constant on the lids of a number of different bird-bowl types, from those without feet to four-footed examples. As these bowls have been found in some burials, the theme may relate to death and/or the afterlife, or, more simply, to the presumed contents of the vessel.