The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 18, 2025
Deity-Head Vessel
900–400 BCE
(900-400 BCE)
Overall: 27.6 x 14.9 x 19.2 cm (10 7/8 x 5 7/8 x 7 9/16 in.)
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
The Tembladera style is one of several very early styles that developed on the northern desert coast of Peru.Description
This is a stirrup-spouted vessel shaped as the effigy of a deity head with bulging, circular eyes from which hang pendants. A fanged, bandlike mouth is arranged horizontally on top of a projecting chin that is tipped with a three-dimensional, zoomorphic head. A chin strap reaches between two modeled knobs that double as ear ornaments, and the underpart of the chin is ornamented with chevrons. The face is painted red, yellow, and white over the burnished gray-black surface of the ceramic.- {{cite web|title=Deity-Head Vessel|url=false|author=|year=900–400 BCE|access-date=18 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2009.82