Moche Ceramic Vessels

The decoration is sometimes painted on the smooth surface of vessels 67 167 4.

Moche ceramic vessels.

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

Moche is fairly well defined temporally although its origins are less clear than its demise. Moche skilled ceramists produced a great variety of exquisitely decorated vessels. 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.

The shaman wears a feline headdress and large disc earrings. 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. One particularly famous moche portrait vessel is known as the huaco retrato mochica. Mochica style this modelled ceramic shows a priest or shaman engaged in a curing ritual or praying over a deceased person.

These phases were verified by archeological strata. 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.