Cleveland Museum of Art
Deity-Head Vessel
- Date
- 900–400 BCE
- Medium
- ceramic with pigment applied after firing
- Culture
- Peru, North Coast, Tembladera people, Early Horizon (900-400 BCE)
- Department
- Art of the Americas
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This is a stirrup-spouted vessel shaped as the effigy of a deity head with bulging, circular eyes from which hang pendants. A fanged, bandlike mouth is arranged horizontally on top of a projecting chin that is tipped with a three-dimensional, zoomorphic head. A chin strap reaches between two modeled knobs that double as ear ornaments, and the underpart of the chin is ornamented with chevrons. The face is painted red, yellow, and white over the burnished gray-black surface of the ceramic. The Tembladera style is one of several very early styles that developed on the northern desert coast of Peru.
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