Kero Cup in Shape of Head Item Number: 39.563 from the Brooklyn Museum
Description
The vessel is constructed from a single piece of wood. On the front, a face is carved; on the back, the hair provides a panel for a figural scene in which an Inca ruler, sitting on a low stool and holding a shield, is presented with a prisoner of war whose face is painted with three horizontal bands of color like the face on the kero cup itself. The scene also includes a figure holding a parasol over another figure and a seated feline. The forehead forms the rim of the cup and the neck forms the foot of the vessel. Inca themes were used on kero cups throughout the Colonial era.
Credit Line
Museum Collection Fund
Item History
- Made between 1600 and 1799
What
Where
- Holding Institution
- Brooklyn Museum
When
- Creation Date
- between 1600 and 1799
Other
- Classification
- (not assigned)