Vessel with Abstract Heads (100 BCE–700 CE): Art, History and Details
Vessel with Abstract Heads at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 100 BCE–700 CE, earthenware with colored slips. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Vessel with Abstract Heads (100 BCE–700 CE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
Late Nasca supernatural depictions became abstract, detailed, and focused on the head. In this vessel's central register, for instance, a deity is reduced to two mask-like faces, edged by volutes and linked by tongues; the only remains of a body are the hands. The lower register carries a similar image, and the upper register has severed human heads.
Object facts
- Title: Vessel with Abstract Heads
- Date: 100 BCE–700 CE
- Culture: Peru, South Coast, Nasca
- Type: Ceramic
- Technique: earthenware with colored slips
- Dimensions: Overall: 10.4 x 14 cm (4 1/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
- Collection: AA - Andes
- Department: Art of the Americas
- Accession number: 1946.279
Collection credit
James Albert Ford Memorial Fund
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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