Moche Ceramic Vessels

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.

Moche ceramic vessels.

One particularly famous moche portrait vessel is known as the huaco retrato mochica. The decoration is sometimes painted on the smooth surface of vessels 67 167 4. Moche skilled ceramists produced a great variety of exquisitely decorated vessels. 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.

The portrait was made during the late moche period ca. 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. Photo by nathan benn wagner edu. The ceramic portrait is also an example of a stirrup spout vessel of a moche ruler.

600 ce according to the chronology made by rafael larco hoyle in 1948. Mochica style this modelled ceramic shows a priest or shaman engaged in a curing ritual or praying over a deceased person. Moche ceramic pot vessel in the form of a recumbent anthropomorphic peasant playing the quena an andean flute. The shaman wears a feline headdress and large disc earrings.

Other times it is tridimensional forming the vessel shape itself 82 1 30. 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.