Cleveland Museum of Art

Double-spouted Vessel

Date: 750–1 BCE
Medium: Ceramic, resin-based paint
Culture: Andes, south coast, Paracas people
Department: Art of the Americas
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art

The Paracas style, the earliest of Peru’s south coast, focuses on geometric abstraction and polychromy, the latter achieved in ceramics with resin-based paints applied after the vessel was fired. This example is embellished with two monkey- or feline-like creatures whose curvilinearity indicates the vessel was made in the late stages of the Paracas sequence. A face with upturned eyes on one spout gives this vessel a specific orientation.

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