Spout in the form of a man's head
Details
- Palette
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- Medium
- Ceramic, glaze
- Dimensions
- 8 9/16 in. × 6 in. × 6 3/16 in. (21.8 × 15.3 × 15.7 cm)
- Origin
- Parthian
- Department
- Ancient West Asian Art
- Holding institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Image provider
- metropolitan-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Gift of Walter Hauser, 1956
Art Genome Taxonomy
6 tags
Subject Matter
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Face Both · 99%
The object visibly takes the form of a modeled human face, and the museum title identifies it as a man's head.
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Human Figure Both · 94%
A male human head dominates the object; the catalog lists the subjects as Heads and Men.
Visual Qualities
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Single Object Visual · 99%
The image presents one isolated anthropomorphic object against a neutral gray background.
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Rough Visual · 95%
The ceramic surface is visibly uneven and abraded, with extensive losses and irregular areas of surviving pale glaze or coating.
Time Periods
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Ancient Art Metadata · 95%
The object is dated to approximately the 1st–2nd century CE, within the catalog's ancient-art period.
Materials
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Ceramic Metadata · 99%
The museum specifies the medium as ceramic with glaze.
Source & rights
Unknown artist. Spout in the form of a man's head. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.