Cup

Pottery: black and white on red slip. Flat base, convexly expanding side. With two painted faces

Cup or 'qero' with a flaring body, no neck/collar, rounded rim, no handles, and a flat base. No molded/modeled additions. The cup is painted with an orange/red background and two faces in Wari/Post-Tihuanaco style. The faces are outlined in red with eyes, nose, and mouth in black and white. There appears to be a burnished finish on the exterior and a smoothed finish on the interior. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange in color. Fireclouding is present on the body. The catalogue number is written on the interior of the vessel and black ink on the interior of vessel reads: "3198."