Cleveland Museum of Art
Vessel with Reclining Figure and Birds
- Date
- 2200–200 BCE
- Medium
- Ceramic, pigment (cinnabar?)
- Culture
- Andes, north coast, Cupisnique style
- Department
- Art of the Americas
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This ceramic vessel features a supine human being pecked by two birds that perch on the vessel’s doughnut-shaped chamber. The identity of the apparently mythical creature modeled in low relief on the sides of the stirrup-shaped spout is unknown. Little can be said about meaning beyond pointing out an obvious reference to death. The stirrup-shaped form of the spout is common among Peruvian ceramics and unique to the ancient Americas.
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