Moche Ceramic Vessels

Moche ceramic pot vessel in the form of a recumbent anthropomorphic peasant playing the quena an andean flute.

Moche ceramic vessels.

Mochica style this modelled ceramic shows a priest or shaman engaged in a curing ritual or praying over a deceased person. Moche is fairly well defined temporally although its origins are less clear than its demise. One particularly famous moche portrait vessel is known as the huaco retrato mochica. Moche sexuality 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.

The shaman wears a feline headdress and large disc earrings. The portrait was made during the late moche period ca. The decoration is sometimes painted on the smooth surface of vessels 67 167 4. 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.

Archaeologists study and compare styles and themes depicted in moche art for clues about lifestyle belief and cultural variation among these ancient people. Photo by nathan benn wagner edu. 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. Most of the moche ceramics have been recovered from the major archaeological sites of huaca de la luna huaca del sol and sipán shown respectively from left to right.

600 ce according to the chronology made by rafael larco hoyle in 1948. Moche skilled ceramists produced a great variety of exquisitely decorated vessels.