Portrait Head Vessel
200–550
- Medium
- earthenware with colored slips
- Dimensions
- Overall: 30.5 x 28.9 x 25 cm (12 x 11 3/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
- Genre
- Ceramics
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Peru, North Coast, Moche style
About
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.