id: 124800 accession number: 1946.279 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1946.279 updated: 2023-01-10 22:32:34.491000 Vessel with Abstract Heads, 100 BC–AD 700. Peru, South Coast, Nasca style (100 BC-AD 700). Earthenware with colored slips; overall: 10.4 x 14 cm (4 1/8 x 5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, James Albert Ford Memorial Fund 1946.279 title: Vessel with Abstract Heads title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 100 BC–AD 700 creation date earliest: -100 creation date latest: 700 current location: 232 Andean creditline: James Albert Ford Memorial Fund copyright: --- culture: Peru, South Coast, Nasca style (100 BC-AD 700) technique: earthenware with colored slips department: Art of the Americas collection: AA - Andes type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 10.4 x 14 cm (4 1/8 x 5 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; November 9, 1945- January 6, 1946. "Art of the Americas."

Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 23-April 3, 1966. "Treasures of Peruvian Gold." --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Late Nasca supernatural depictions became abstract, detailed, and focused on the head. In this vessel's central register, for instance, a deity is reduced to two mask-like faces, edged by volutes and linked by tongues; the only remains of a body are the hands. The lower register carries a similar image, and the upper register has severed human heads. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1946.279/1946.279_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1946.279/1946.279_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1946.279/1946.279_full.tif