The peculiar form of this plate with a flat bottom, a circular base and a side with a spout seems to have originated in the southern lands of Oaxaca and Guatemala. In the valley of Mexico and the Chalcatzingo region in Morelos it is found in different ceramic types. In this case, the burnished engobe has been decorated on the outside with the characteristic motif of the engraved intersecting parallel lines known as the “Tlatilco ”.
The plate with the spout has been associated with pottery work because examples have been found in Tlatilco that still contained remains of red paint to decorate the vessels. There are some indications that ceramics were produced by women in this culture. This is suggested by a pair of figures that represent a sitting pottery maker that rolls a bottle with her arms and also the funerary offerings of a woman that contained a ceramic worker's set of tools: a clay mask, stone and bone smoothers, and metates to prepare the mass and punches.
The peculiar form of this plate with a flat bottom, a circular base and a side with a spout seems to have originated in the southern lands of Oaxaca and Guatemala. In the valley of Mexico and the Chalcatzingo region in Morelos it is found in different ceramic types. In this case, the burnished engobe has been decorated on the outside with the characteristic motif of the engraved intersecting parallel lines known as the “Tlatilco ”.
