Standing Female with Basket (600–1000): Art, History and Details

Standing Female with Basket (600–1000) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

This figure's delicate face features rows of raised dots on the cheeks and the edges of the ears, perhaps representing ornamental scarification; the teeth are decoratively filed into a T or tau shape that may have had symbolic import. On her shoulder she carries a basket or bowl filled with a yet-to-be-identified bundle, perhaps marshy bulrushes. The headdress ties have been lost from one side of the head.

Object facts

• Title: Standing Female with Basket
• Date: 600–1000
• Culture: Mesoamerica, Veracruz, Nopiloa style, 7th-10th century
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: ceramic, slip
• Dimensions: Overall: 19.8 x 21.4 x 8.4 cm (7 13/16 x 8 7/16 x 3 5/16 in.)
• Collection: AA - Mesoamerica
• Department: Art of the Americas
• Accession number: 2004.67

Collection credit

General Acquisition Fund

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