Double-spouted Vessel (750–1 BCE): Art, History and Details

Double-spouted Vessel (750–1 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The Paracas style, the earliest of Peru’s south coast, focuses on geometric abstraction and polychromy, the latter achieved in ceramics with resin-based paints applied after the vessel was fired. This example is embellished with two monkey- or feline-like creatures whose curvilinearity indicates the vessel was made in the late stages of the Paracas sequence.

Object facts

• Title: Double-spouted Vessel
• Date: 750–1 BCE
• Culture: Andes, south coast, Paracas people
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: Ceramic, resin-based paint
• Dimensions: Overall: 19.7 x 20.7 cm (7 3/4 x 8 1/8 in.)
• Collection: AA - Andes
• Department: Art of the Americas
• Accession number: 2017.57

A detail from the museum

A face with upturned eyes on one spout gives this vessel a specific orientation.

Collection credit

Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund

View the collection record

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