Bottle

Painted with face and rattle

Face-neck vessel. Narrow-necked jar/bottle with a globular body, effigy-anthropomorphic neck, outward sloping rim, 2 cord (round cross-section) handles on the body, and a rattle base. The vessel has a molded face on the neck and an openwork, cut design on the hollow base with two clay balls inside. The vessel is slipped with painted Tihuanaco style design in red and black. There appears to be a burnished finish on the exterior. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange in color. The catalogue number is written on the object in black ink on the bottom of the base. Black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "3251."