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Face Urn
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About this work
This wheel-thrown vase is decorated with humanlike facial features and a phallus applied to the face’s cheek. Wide arching eyebrows meet at the short bridge of the face’s puggy nose, which sits over lips pursed around its protruding tongue. Finger marks can be seen around the eyes and eyebrows where clay was added onto the surface of the vessel to form the facial features.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineFace Urn, 25–50 CE. Rhenish (Cologne), Gallo Roman, 2nd quarter, 1st Century. Reddish ware with gray burnished slip; diameter: 19.5 cm (7 11/16 in.); overall: 19 x 20 cm (7 1/2 x 7 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1992.125
