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Ceremonial Cup with Faces and a Stylized Snake
Lambayeque (Sicán)900-1100
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
This cylindrical vessel displays a human face with a prominent hooked nose, large disk-shaped eyes, and a very small mouth--on each side of its body. Stylized snakes entwine themselves around the cup, and form the top and sides of the faces.
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Details
- Title: Ceremonial Cup with Faces and a Stylized Snake
- Date Created: 900-1100
- Physical Dimensions: h10.16 cm
- Type: vases; vessels; cups
- Rights: Acquired by Henry Walters, 1911, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
- External Link: The Walters Art Museum
- Medium: silver
- Provenance: Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
- Place of Origin: north Peru
- Artist: Lambayeque (Sicán)
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