id: 125202 accession number: 1947.172 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.172 updated: 2023-01-10 22:38:06.736000 Vessel with Running Figures, 450–550. Peru, North Coast, Moche style (50-800). Earthenware with colored slips; overall: 29 x 15.6 cm (11 7/16 x 6 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of John Wise 1947.172 title: Vessel with Running Figures title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 450–550 creation date earliest: 450 creation date latest: 550 current location: creditline: Gift of John Wise copyright: --- culture: Peru, North Coast, Moche style (50-800) technique: earthenware with colored slips department: Art of the Americas collection: AA - Andes type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 29 x 15.6 cm (11 7/16 x 6 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 23-April 3, 1966. "Treasures of Peruvian Gold." --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Moche painters were masters at capturing the peak of physical activity. On this vessel are runners whose legs seem to churn so fast they ripple the desert groundline. Such runners, common in Moche art, always carry small bags, the contents open to question. But beans sometimes float around the runners, as here, suggesting they are involved in a ritual for planting. Beans also may have been used in rituals to divine the unknown. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Donnan, Christopher B., and Donna McClelland. Moche Fineline Painting: Its Evolution and Its Artists. Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1999. page number: 206 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.172/1947.172_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.172/1947.172_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.172/1947.172_full.tif