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
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creation date:			2200 - 200 BC
creation date earliest:		-2200
creation date latest:		-200
current location:		232 Andean
creditline:			Gift of John and Agneta Solomon
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culture:	Andes, north coast, Cupisnique style
technique:	Ceramic, pigment (cinnabar?)
department:	Art of the Americas
collection:	AA - Andes
type:		Ceramic
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measurements: Overall: 14.3 x 14.9 cm (5 5/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Robert Sonin, New York, NY, gifted to a Private Collector
	date: Before 1960s-2012
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	Private Collector, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 2012-2017
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2017-
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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.

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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