Cleveland Museum of Art
Vessel with Butterfly Headdress
- Date
- 1–550 CE
- Medium
- ceramic, stucco, pigment
- Culture
- Central Mexico, Teotihuacán, Classic period
- Department
- Art of the Americas
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
The headdress shown on this vessel combines a serpent's mouth with a butterfly's proboscis (feeding tube), which curls between the eyes. The butterfly often appears in the headdress of the Great Goddess, an extremely important Teotihuacán deity. Stucco (paper-thin, painted plaster) is fragile and usually does not survive well; the stucco of the basin in this case has been repaired.
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