Large portrait head jar with stirrup handle. The face is powerfully modelled with full lips, straight nose, and strongly marked eye sockets. Disk earrings hang from pierced ear lobes. The face of the figure, with the exception of a thin line outlining the eye-socket, is painted brick red. The remainder of the jar is the pale terra cotta color of the body clay. Spout of handle restored.

Portrait head jar, Date Unknown

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The Ethel Morrison Van Derlip Fundexpand_more  44.3.21

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Title
Portrait head jar
Role
Artist
Accession Number
44.3.21
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Large portrait head jar with stirrup handle. The face is powerfully modelled with full lips, straight nose, and strongly marked eye sockets. Disk earrings hang from pierced ear lobes. The face of the figure, with the exception of a thin line outlining the eye-socket, is painted brick red. The remainder of the jar is the pale terra cotta color of the body clay. Spout of handle restored.