Pot Item Number: Sf627 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
A hand-built ceramic with a central cylindrical spout surmounted by a ring handle. Vessel form may be a stylized rodent. Surface colour is predominantly orange with traces of fugitive negative decoration. Residue of white and orange may be slip decoration. Facial features, including eyebrows and nose, are modelled and incised. Vessel is thick walled and paste is coarse; patches of clouded grey from incomplete firing. Many cracks and breaks, reassembled with glue.
History Of Use
This style appears abruptly replacing a refined portraiture-oriented style that relates to the Early Moche Style. Sawyer suggests the Negative Vicus Style intrudes from the north, pointing out affinities with highland Ecuadorian styles. To account for the abrupt change he hypothesizes an invasion of barbarians from the north which forced the Early Vicus people to migrate southward.
Narrative
Negative Vicus, Early Intermediate Period; 0-500 C.E.
Item History
What
- Name
- Pot
- Identification Number
- Sf627
- Type of Item
- pot
- Material
- glaze, adhesive and clay
- Manufacturing Technique
- oxidation fired, incised and slip painted
- Overall
- height 19.4 cm, width 16.0 cm, depth 28.5 cm
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Peru
When
- Creation Date
- during 500
- Collection Date
- between 1949 and 1966
- Ownership Date
- before May 4, 1981
- Acquisition Date
- on May 4, 1981
Other
- Item Classes
- ceramics
- Condition
- poor
- Current Location
- Case 89
- Accession Number
- 0711/0129