Ceramic Moche Vessel

One particularly famous moche portrait vessel is known as the huaco retrato mochica.

Ceramic moche vessel.

The shaman wears a feline headdress and large disc earrings. The decoration is sometimes painted on the smooth surface of vessels 67 167 4. There are traces of spotted beige slip decoration on the ear spools and spots on the headdress. The portrait was made during the late moche period ca.

Archaeologists study and compare styles and themes depicted in moche art for clues about lifestyle belief and cultural variation among these ancient people. Other times it is tridimensional forming the vessel shape itself 82 1 30. Among these are the chavin paracas nasca moche huari chimú and inca. Photo by nathan benn wagner edu.

Moche ceramic pot vessel in the form of a recumbent anthropomorphic peasant playing the quena an andean flute. Of the thousands of ceramic vessels that have been recovered at least 500 of them display sexually explicit imagery typically rendered as free standing three dimensional figures on top or as part of the vessel. Peru moche portrait vessel of lord with a puma headdress. Moche vessels are especially well known for their unique stirrup shaped spouts and representational art style depicting humans animals and activities of social and spiritual significance.

For many years the foundation of moche chronology was a five phase ceramic temporal seriation of moche style vessels established by larco hoyle 1946 1948. During peru s long history many civilizations have flourished and subsequently disappeared. The ceramic portrait is also an example of a stirrup spout vessel of a moche ruler. Moche is fairly well defined temporally although its origins are less clear than its demise.

Reddish brown ceramic open top portrait vessel of a man wearing ear spools and a headdress with a puma head motif and two enormous front paws emerging from the sides. They were known for impressive stone architecture extensive road systems elaborate religious ceremonies exquisite weaving jewelry and ceramics this set is a. Moche skilled ceramists produced a great variety of exquisitely decorated vessels. Many of these cultures had highly complex stratified societies.