Warrior Vessel (c. 50–200 CE): Art, History and Details

Warrior Vessel (c. 50–200 CE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

This vessel's exquisite, crisp detail rewards careful viewing. The modeling of the feline pelt on the back is especially delicate and sharp, and each of the squares on the tunic carries a tiny dot in the upper corners, as though the squares represent plates of metal or shell attached to fabric. The face is decorated with paint or tattooing, and the headdress supports a curved, blade-shaped form.

Object facts

• Title: Warrior Vessel
• Date: c. 50–200 CE
• Culture: Peru, North Coast, Moche, Moche style (50-800)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: earthenware with colored slips
• Dimensions: Overall: 21.6 x 11.3 x 14.9 cm (8 1/2 x 4 7/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
• Collection: AA - Andes
• Department: Art of the Americas
• Accession number: 1989.90

Collection credit

Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• E. H. T. “The Year in Review: Selections 1989.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 2 (February 1990): 38–78.

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