Cleveland Museum of Art
Portrait Head Vessel
- Date
- 200–550 CE
- Medium
- earthenware with colored slips
- Culture
- Peru, North Coast, Moche style
- Department
- Art of the Americas
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
The Moche were unique in ancient Peru in creating realistic human portraits, usually in the form of ceramic vessels. This large example may represent an important captive who, like some Moche prisoner figures, wears double earrings and a hank of hair over the forehead.
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