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Nice Pre-Columbian Anthropoid Jar, Vicus, Peru browse these categories for related items... Directory: Archives: Regional Art: Americas: South American: Pre AD 1000: Item # 537744
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Until the 1960's, very little was known about the Vicus culture, which was located in the far north of Peru. Vicus ceramics are stylistically similar to those produced during the earliest phases of Moche development. Like early Moche ceramics, the sculptural forms are both compact and rigid. While the Moche preferred the use of colored slips, the Vicus adopted a method of oxygen reduction or negative resist to apply designs, a technique also used by the highland Narino and Carchi cultures of Colombia and Ecuador. Most of the subject matter of Vicus ceramics have Moche parallels, a fact that supports the theory that the Vicus were driven out of their northern homeland during the third century B.C. and migrated south where they eventually became one of the principal groups of the Moche kingdom.
AGE: 200 B.C. to 200 A.D. CONDITION: Intact with no repairs or restorations, with one tiny abrasion on the reverse as shown in the enlargements. DIMENSIONS: 5.4" tall (13.7 cm) |
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