id: 294033 accession number: 2017.55 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2017.55 updated: 2022-01-13 10:05:31.942000 Vessel with Reclining Figure and Birds, 2200 - 200 BC. Andes, north coast, Cupisnique style. Ceramic, pigment (cinnabar?); overall: 14.3 x 14.9 cm (5 5/8 x 5 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of John and Agneta Solomon 2017.55 title: Vessel with Reclining Figure and Birds title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 2200 - 200 BC creation date earliest: -2200 creation date latest: -200 current location: 232 Andean creditline: Gift of John and Agneta Solomon copyright: --- culture: Andes, north coast, Cupisnique style technique: Ceramic, pigment (cinnabar?) department: Art of the Americas collection: AA - Andes type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 14.3 x 14.9 cm (5 5/8 x 5 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Robert Sonin, New York, NY, gifted to a Private Collector date: Before 1960s-2012 footnotes: citations: Private Collector, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 2012-2017 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2017- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The stirrup-shaped form of the spout is common among Peruvian ceramics and unique to the ancient Americas. digital description: 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. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2017.55/2017.55_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2017.55/2017.55_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2017.55/2017.55_full.tif