# Vessel with Butterfly Headdress

- Date: 1–550 CE
- Medium: ceramic, stucco, pigment
- Classification: Ceramic
- Dimensions: Diameter: 15.6 x 15.8 cm (6 1/8 x 6 1/4 in.); Overall: 15.5 cm (6 1/8 in.)
- Culture: Central Mexico, Teotihuacán, Classic period
- Credit line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.231)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.231/1990.231_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The headdress shown on this vessel combines a serpent's mouth with a butterfly's proboscis (feeding tube), which curls between the eyes. The butterfly often appears in the headdress of the Great Goddess, an extremely important Teotihuacán deity. Stucco (paper-thin, painted plaster) is fragile and usually does not survive well; the stucco of the basin in this case has been repaired.