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Portrait vessel
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Portrait vessel

Artist
Date200-500 AD
MediumFired clay
ClassificationsContainers
Credit LineGift of Thomas Wilber
Object number1980.1.24
DescriptionMold-made ceramic portrait vessel; represents a man with one blind eye, raised hair ridge (portrait is only from the neck up - there is no body); his ears have ear ornaments molded to them; the clay is a reddish color and remnants of red and cream color paint still exist.
On View
Not on view
Head fragment
550-750 A.D.
Figurine
550-750 A.D.
Figurine head
unknown - late maybe
Moa-Na-Hon-Ga
AFTER KING
Philadelphia : Key and Biddle, 1836
Effigy vessel
Peru
AD 200-500
Figurine head
550-750 A.D.
Moche V (500-700AD) or Chimu (1000-1437)
Adorno
PRE-COLUMBIAN/OAXACA
500-800
Male figure
JALISCO
300 B.C. - 300 A.D.