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Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： Warrior prepared for ritual combat. His high social position is expressed by his ceremonial attire, which includes a headdress decorated with paws and a mushroom in the rear, and pendant ear ornaments, both characteristic of the ceremonial attire of neighboring highlander populations to the coastal Moche. The warrior also wears a necklace with owl-head beads, a shirt with a net-like design, and holds a shield and a striated war club. Because of his adornments and the color of the piece (black), this warrior…

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： Warrior prepared for ritual combat. His high social position is expressed by his ceremonial attire, which includes a headdress decorated with three crescent-shaped ornaments, big ear plugs, breastplate, necklace, bracelets, and backflap. He carries a shield and a war club. Because of the shape of his headdress′ adornments and the color of the piece, this warrior would be symbolically associated with the daily and solar world. (UH) Guerrero preparado para el combate ritual. Su alta posición social se expresa en su vestimenta formada…

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This sculptural ceramic bottle represents a war club used by the warriors in the ritual battles. Some Moche altars or ceremonial precincts also display alignments of these clubs over their roofs. (UH) Esta botella escultórica de cerámica representa una maza o porra utilizada en los combates ceremoniales. Algunos altares o recintos ceremoniales Mochica también lucen sobre sus techos estas formas de mazas o porras dispuestas en hileras. (UH) 作品介绍 标题: Sculptural ceramic ceremonial vessel that represents a war club ML001853 创作者: Moche style…

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This sculptural ceramic bottle depicts a two-headed snake coiled on itself. Its spiral body shows water-related symbols (circles) and motifs that resemble the spots of the jaguar skin. The two-headed snake is a mythological being very significant in the Andean world. It is linked to shamanic visions, and is considered a connector between different worlds. In the Andes, the Milky Way or the rainbow sometimes is portrayed as an arched two-headed snake. (UH) En esta botella escultórica de cerámica se representa una serpiente…

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This sculptural ceramic bottle represents a trumpeter man, wearing a shirt with stepped motif design, circular shaped earrings, face and body painting, and loading a bag in the back and another bag in his left arm. He holds a conch of Strombus sp. that was used in the Andes as a ceremonial trumpet, known as pututo or waylla kepa. The Strombus is a warm water seashell associated with the cycle of water. In the Andean worldview, water originates in the sea and then…

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This is a sculptural ceramic bottle depicting a temple on the islands. In the islands off the coast of northern Peru offerings and sacrifices were conducted, and Moche art represents the altars built there and other ritual events performed out in the islands. This sculptural piece portrays elements of island environment in detail, such as small reed boats loaded up, and sea lions lying on the rocks of the island. (UH) Esta es una botella escultórica de cerámica que representa un templo en…

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This sculptural ceramic jar represents a pyramid-shaped building with friezes and murals. Five modeled personages are relying on the structure. A personage with feline features who carries spear throwers is painted in one of the steps, flanked by rectangular squares. The composition of this piece resembles the architectural and iconographic plan of the most important Moche temples, such as Huaca de la Luna (Moche Valley, region of La Libertad, northern coast of Peru). (UH) Este cántaro escultórico de cerámica representa un edificio en…

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This vase portrays a cadaverous male individual, an inhabitant of the underworld, who is still sexually active. The male sexual organ is represented with exaggerated dimensions, emphasizing the ability of this person to be an issuer of semen, and thus be a fertilizer in the inner world. (UH) Este vaso muestra a un individuo masculino cadavérico, un habitante del mundo de abajo, sexualmente activo. El órgano sexual masculino está representado con dimensiones exageradas, enfatizando la capacidad de este personaje de ser un emisor…

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This sculptural ceramic depicts a scene of hunting of sea lions on the islands. Hunters dress with a shirt, skirt or loincloth and a headdress of feathers, carrying a mace and circular shield. Sea birds complete the scene. Both deer and sea lions hunt scenes are war-related rituals in Moche art. Both the deer and the sea lions have special behaviors in situations of environmental changes such as those caused by El Ni?o phenomenon: the deer destroy crops for food, the sea lion…

Recuay style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This is a sculptural ceramic bottle depicting a scene of ancestor worship. Four men standing with their genitals exposed hold a sort of roof that covers the space which could correspond to the tomb of the ancestor, who is sitting at the center of a small platform. The central character is adorned with circular earrings, wears a headdress with elements that seem feather ornaments, and is flanked by women who carry small containers, and that probably represent the priestesses in charge of the…

Salinar style1250 BC – 1 AD 该作品的收藏者： This sculptural ceramic bottle depicts a sexual union between a man and a woman. It could be the union of an ancestral couple of the Salinar society of the north coast of Peru. (UH) En esta botella escultórica de cerámica se representa una unión sexual entre un hombre y una mujer. Podría tratarse de la unión de dos personajes ancestrales de la sociedad Salinar de la costa norte del Perú. (UH) 作品介绍 标题: Sculptural ceramic ceremonial vessel that represents a scene of sexual…

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This sculptural ceramic bottle depicts a scene of sexual union between an ancestor and a woman who could represent the earth. The ancestor wears an elaborate headdress and ear ornaments that indicate high status. The union happens under a roofed structure supported by four columns. Four priestesses surround the couple and hold the posts with their hands. (UH) En esta botella escultórica de cerámica se representa una escena de unión sexual entre un ancestro y una mujer que podría representar a la tierra….

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： Moche art shows various types of sacrifice offered to the main gods. Some were held in the mountains, where the warriors were thrown off a precipice. This sculptural ceramic bottle represents the god of the mountain sitting in the bottom of the hills. The smaller characters probably represent the ancestors of the Moche lineages, since they have the same mouth with feline fangs that characterizes Ai Apaec, the Moche civilizing hero. Some of these characters are sliding between the hills, perhaps alluding to…

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： A scene of picking of land snails (Scutalus sp.) which live in the hills of the north coast of Peru is depicted in this sculptural ceramic bottle. These snails feed, among other plants, from the San Pedro cactus that contain mescaline, so they become psychoactive species, which when consumed by humans, produce altered states of consciousness. Therefore, these snails were required for the rituals of consumption. In this scene the collectors use a stick to collect the snails, and place them in small…

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This sculptural ceramic bottle represents a lying puma. Big felines in the Andean region, as the puma and jaguar are animals that symbolize the power of the earthly world. The political and religious leaders of pre-Columbian societies identified with them, and this is expressed in the way they were represented, with feline fangs. (UH) Esta botella escultórica de cerámica representa un puma echado. Los grandes felinos del área andina, como el puma y el jaguar, son los animales que simbolizan el poder del…

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This is a sculptural ceramic bottle depicting a priest seated on a stepped pyramid. He is holding a small lime-container. The lime was extracted with a stick which was then placed in the mouth of the person chewing the coca leaves, where it acted as a catalyst in the extraction of the alkaloid components from the coca leaf. The chacchado or chewing of the coca leaf is an ancient practice of the Andean region, which is practiced for ceremonial purposes and energizing. The…

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This sculptural ceramic bottle represents the potato (Solanum tuberosum) essential tuber in the Andean diet. It is the Andean crop that symbolically represents the world below, the inner world, as it is precisely the tuberous root of the plant what is edible. (UH) Esta botella escultórica de cerámica representa la papa (Solanum tuberosum), tubérculo esencial en la dieta andina. Es el cultivo andino que simbólicamente representa el mundo de abajo, el mundo interior, ya que precisamente la parte comestible es la raíz tuberosa…

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： A Moche mythological woman is represented in this sculptural ceramic bottle. She wears a long tunic, a headdress with two tassels, circular ear ornaments and necklace. The layout of her hair is in braids, characteristic hairstyle of Moche women. This woman has intertwined fangs, and holds two objects that identify her: a tassel and a scepter in the shape of a skein holder. This mythological woman is symbolically associated with the spider, the mythological weaver. (UH) En esta botella escultórica de cerámica se…

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This sculptural ceramic bottle represents the transport of prisoners to the islands by a mythological being, the marine twin of Ai Apaec, the civilizing hero of the Moche. Offerings and sacrifices took place in the islands off the coast of northern Peru. Moche art also represents the altars built there and other ceremonies performed in the islands. (UH) En esta botella escultórica de cerámica se representa el transporte de cautivos a las islas por un personaje mitológico, el mellizo marino de Ai Apaec,…

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This sculptural ceramic jar depicts a mythological potato. This tuber (Solanum tuberosum) symbolizes the world below, the inner world. The characters and actions modeled on the body of the jar allude to this world, such as mutilated faces, victims of sacrifice, maritime birds and sea lions. (UH) Este cántaro escultórico de cerámica representa una papa mitológica. La papa (Solanum tuberosum) al ser un tubérculo, simboliza el mundo de abajo, el mundo interior. Los personajes y acciones que están modeladas en el cuerpo del…

Nasca style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This is a sculptural ceramic bottle depicting a mythological killing-whale, mythological animal of the Nazca culture which captures heads. In some representations, the stylized heads are portrayed inside its body. Thus, the mythological killing-whale transports the head-offerings to the deep and humid world, the world of the ancestors. This personage can also be identified in one of the great geoglyphs of the Nazca Lines. (UH) Esta es una botella escultórica de cerámica que representa a una orca mitológica decapitadora, animal mitológico de la…

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This is a sculptural ceramic bottle with relief scenes referred to the Sacrifice Ceremony. At the top of the container lays Ai Apaec (so named by Rafael Larco, meaning "the maker” in Muchik language) is the Moche mythological personage characterized by a belt and ear ornaments with snake heads, fangs in his face, and a headdress that varies according to the context in which he is located as part of his quest. He is flanked by two lizards. The four sides of the…

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This sculptural ceramic bottle represents a mythological running bird. One of the most frequently recurring themes in Moche art is the race between human beings or anthropomorphic beings with the features of animals, carrying bags with lima beans and sticks in their hands. In this race the runners participated wearing their finest clothing and elaborate headdresses, the most characteristic of which were the circular and the trapezoid frontal headdresses. The ritual version of this mythological race would have been a major competition and…

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This is a bottle sculptural ceramic black with pearl inlay depicting a mythological animal. His eye is represented by a turquoise stone inlay. This mythological creature is known as lunar animal or feline rampant. It is a hybrid animal that represents the link between the different worlds, as it has fangs feline body, face and ears of a fox, bird crests, and in some cases have extensions in the form of snakes. His image is present in artistic representations for more than 4,000…

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This sculptural ceramic bottle depicts a man with a maimed foot. His face has scarifications with symbols. In Moche art, personages with mutilated feet are represented as guardians or protectors of the tombs of high ranking personages. Mutilation of the foot also is related to poisoning suffered metallurgists who have been exposed during their lifetime to gases and other toxic substances. (UH) Esta botella escultórica de cerámica representa a un hombre con pie mutilado. Su rostro presenta escarificaciones con símbolos. En el arte…

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This sculptural ceramic jar depicts a man. The high quality of this piece is notable, as well as the detail in the representation of the human face. The man wears a turban and a cloak that covers his back. (UH) Este cántaro escultórico de cerámica representa a un hombre. Destaca la gran calidad de la confección de esta pieza, y el detalle en la representación del rostro del hombre. éste lleva un turbante y una capa que le cubre la espalda. (UH) 作品介绍…

Chancay style1300 AD – 1532 AD 该作品的收藏者： This is a sculptural ceramic jar depicting a man who carries a deer. He wears high status ornaments such as the headdress. This personage is related to the deer hunting, often represented in pre-Columbian art as an expression of the power of the feline, the Supreme Being that subjects its prey (deer) to be offered in sacrifice. (UH) Este es un cántaro escultórico que representa a un personaje que carga un venado y viste adornos de alto rango, como el tocado de cabeza….

Chimu style1300 AD – 1532 AD 该作品的收藏者： This ceramic sculptural bottle depicts a man carrying a deer. It is not the feline that attacks the deer, but a man that plays the role of the feline that captures the prey to be offered. This is a black piece, color that will be frequently used in funerary Chimu pottery. It has the arc handle, a shape that it is present in the ceremonial ceramic art of the northern coast of Peru since the Formative Period (1200 BC). A small monkey connects…

Recuay style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This is a sculptural ceramic bottle that depicts a libation scene. This is a Recuay style piece, which was produced by the peoples who inhabited the northern highlands of Peru, and is characterized by the use white clay or kaolin. Among the shapes that they created, the libation vessels known as pacchas stand out. These vessels have a wide spout by which the liquids can be poured inside, and have a smaller spout to pour out the liquids. This sculptural paccha portrays a…

Cupisnique style1250 BC – 1 AD 该作品的收藏者： This ceramic bowl represents a jaguar attacking a deer. This is a scene in which the savage herbivore is subjected to the strong carnivore; the blood of the deer being offered for the life to continue. Interestingly, the artist who modeled this action precisely located the scene between the interior and exterior of the bowl, and joining the upper and lower sections of the bowl. The confrontation of these animals happens in a liminal space, symbolically represented by the contours of the bowl,…

Cupisnique style1250 BC – 1 AD 该作品的收藏者： This is a ceramic bottle almost 3000 years old, a fine example of funerary art from the Formative Period of the Central Andean Region. The bottle portrays two half-faces: the left half is a feline face with fangs. The right half is a human face; a snake goes through the nose, and the eyebrow flows to the ear and becomes the head of a deer, which is the animal that represents the life taken by the jaguar and offered in sacrifice. The feline…

Lima-Nieveria style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This is a ceramic sculptural bottle depicting a mountain on which a white house with a black gable roof stands. The house is located in the upper part of the body of the bottle, under the arch formed by the handle which connects the two peaks of the bottle. On one side of this double peaks and bridge bottle a herd of white llamas herded by a shepherd is portrayed. On the opposite side a jaguar was modeled inside a concave space of…

Nasca style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This is a sculptural ceramic bowl that represents a head offering. The eyes are closed, and above the head a sling is portrayed. The sling is a combat weapon, used to throw stones in a confrontation. This bowl could then represent a severed or trophy head. This vessel refers to a frequent topic in Nazca art: the mythological battle between the gods and ancestors or community leaders. In Nazca iconography it is the heads of mythological beings or ancestors from which life sprouts…

Nasca style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This is a ceramic sculptural vase depicting a head offering with the eyes closed. This vessel refers to a frequent topic depicted in Nazca pottery: the mythological battle between the gods and ancestors or community leaders. In Nazca iconography, the heads of mythological beings or ancestors are like seeds from which life sprouts again, and that is why these motifs can replace each other. (UH) Este es un vaso escultórico de cerámica que representa una cabeza ofrenda. El rostro tiene los ojos cerrados….

Nasca style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This is a ceramic sculptural vase that depicting a head offering with the eyes closed. This vessel refers to a frequent topic depicted in Nazca pottery: the mythological battle between the gods and ancestors or community leaders. In Nazca iconography, the heads of mythological beings or ancestors are like seeds from which life sprouts again, and that is why these motifs can replace each other. (UH) Este es un vaso escultórico de cerámica que representa una cabeza ofrenda. El rostro tiene los ojos…

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This is a sculptural ceramic bottle depicting a head, also known as “portrait vessel”. The character's facial features have been achieved with great detail, as well as the arrangement of the hair and body adornments like headdress, turban and decorative elements such as feathers, heads of birds and geometric designs. Analyses of large groups of these sculptural bottles indicate that they feature members of the ruling elite, priests, warriors and artisans. Some of these people were even represented at various times in their…

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This sculptural ceramic bottle depicts a scene of fellatio. The woman has braids, and wears a patterned tunic, a necklace with rectangular beads and tubular ear ornaments. The man wears a turban similar to the ones Moche warriors wear under their helmets. Based on the scale of the representation, the woman has larger dimensions, probably representing an ancestral or mythological Moche woman symbolically linked to the earth, which receives the semen of the young warrior. (UH) Esta botella escultórica de cerámica representa una…

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This sculptural ceramic bottle depicts a scene of fellatio. The woman has braids, a tunic with circles designs and kneels in front of the man. He wears a small veil and a hat, which is characteristic of the Moche priests; presents wrinkles on his face, which seems to indicate that he is an elderly man. This scene emphasizes the virility of this individual, who approaching the transit time to the world below, continues issuing semen. (UH) Esta botella escultórica de cerámica representa una…

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This sculptural ceramic bottle represents a sitting puma. The puma and the jaguar, both big felines of the Andean region, are animals that symbolize the power of the terrestrial world. The political and religious leaders of pre-Columbian societies identified with them, and this is expressed in the way they were represented, with feline fangs. In this case, the fangs of the puma have been made in shell. (UH) Esta botella escultórica de cerámica representa un puma sentado. Los grandes felinos del área andina,…

Chimu style1300 AD – 1532 AD 该作品的收藏者： This ceramic sculptural bottle depicts a feline, one of the sacred animals of pre-Columbian Peru. This is a black piece, color that will be frequently used in funerary Chimu pottery. It has the arc handle, a shape that it is present in the ceremonial ceramic art of the northern coast of Peru since the Formative Period (1200 BC). A small monkey connects the peak of the bottle and the arc handle. The monkey is an animal related to the humid world, the region…

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This is a very fine sculptural ceramic bottle representing a cinnamon teal (Anas cyanoptera). It is a species that lives in lakes and coastal wetlands, and feeds on plants and aquatic insects and mollusks. It is depicted naturalistically in this bottle, but ducks are also represented in an anthropomorphic with attributes of warriors and as companions of the mayor deities in the mythological scenes in pre-Columbian art. (UH) Esta es una muy fina botella escultórica de cerámica que representa un pato colorado (Anas…

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： In ancient Peru, the main ceremonies were accompanied by music and dance. Drums, rattles, whistles, trumpets, flutes and pan-flutes were executed and produce rhythms and melodies that were shared in ceremonies and dances. Whistling ceramic vessels which produce sounds with movement were also used. The dancers and musicians dressed in elaborate and colorful costumes, which in some cases have metal elements, bells or rattles. Thus dresses and ornaments communicated the relationship of the characters with astral deities or forces of nature such as…

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This sculptural ceramic bottle depicts a dog. This spotted dog is represented in several scenes of Moche art accompanying Ai Apaec, the Moche mythological hero (so named by Rafael Larco, meaning "the maker” in Muchik language). The dog is his faithful companion and travels with him through the different worlds. It is clearly a psychopomp personage. (UH) Esta botella escultórica de cerámica representa un perro. Este perro moteado es representado en diversas escenas del arte Mochica acompa?ando al héroe mitológico Ai Apaec (así…

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This is a bottle ceramic sculpture depicting a mythological being beheader. The character is a mix of feline fur seal and stripe. It is a creature of the dark depths, who sits holding a decapitated human head in one hand and a knife in the other. Originally, this piece must have pearl inlaid in small concave circles seen on the surface of the part, which would have suggested the brightness of stars on a dark sky. It is likely that this being has…

Moche style1 AD – 800 AD 该作品的收藏者： This sculptural ceramic jar represents a cormorant, a seabird that connects the coast with the marine world. Symbolically, it is bound to the humid and inner world, so the cormorant takes the shape of a tuber that grows in the underworld. (UH) Este es un cántaro escultórico de cerámica que representa cormorán, ave marina que conecta el litoral con el mundo marino. Simbólicamente, está vinculado al mundo al mundo de abajo y por ello el cormorán toma forma a partir de un tubérculo….