Moche Ceramic Technology

Moche ceramic depicting fellatio.

Moche ceramic technology.

Their color pallet was mostly limited to red black and white. The moche or mochica are perhaps best known for their ceramic art. The moche culture ca. 300 ce san josé de moro c.

By patrick charpiat cc by moche art. Corn squash tubers and beans are common among a great diversity of plants. 550 ce and huaca cao viejo which are amongst some of the best preserved burial sites from any andean culture. This would have enabled the mass production of certain forms.

Nearly all vessels required at least two of these techniques and well. 300 ad larco museum collection. Common zoomorphic figures include camelids deer felines foxes rodents monkeys bats sea lions as well as a wide array of birds fish shells arachnids and reptiles. But moche ceramics vary widely in shape and theme with most important social activities documented in pottery including war metalwork weaving and sex.

Moche ceramic art represents an infinite variety of subjects. Moche portrait vessel musée du quai branly paris. Coiling molding modeling and stamping. The use of mold technology is evident.

Ad 100 750 was a south american society with cities temples canals and farmsteads located along the arid coast in a narrow strip between the pacific ocean and the andes mountains of peru. These animals are represented realistically hybridized or anthropomorphized. Moche earmuff of gold inlaid with precious stones. Their pots include life sized portrait heads of individuals and three dimensional representations of animals and.

The moche art style is one of the most representational non abstract styles of art in the ancient andes and this is most easily seen in their spectacular ceramics which makes use of fine line painting fully modelled clay naturalistic figures and stirrup spouts to represent social activities war metalwork weaving and sex. Moche pottery is some of the most varied in the world. Resting deer moche culture at the larco museum collection. The moche produced large amounts of pottery aided by the use of molds to create large quantities of specific shapes.

They used anthropomorphic figures and animal faces and bodies to shape their ceramic. Many fine examples of moche art have been recovered from tombs at sipán c. Moche pottery and textiles.