Andean Ceramics

Double spout vessel

Artist Unknown (Paracas) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:37:35 -0500

Title	Double spout vessel
Artist	Artist Unknown (Paracas)
Date	900-200 B.C.
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	On view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, G260

round bodied vessel with rounded bottom; handle with spout; decorated with incised stylized face made of geometric shapes, in black, yellow, red and white

Jar

Artist Unknown (Nazca) — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 02:01:35 -0400

Title	Jar
Artist	Artist Unknown (Nazca)
Date	3rd century BCE-6th century AD
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	On view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, G260

Large oval jar with the neck representing a human head. The face is slightly modelled, with nose and chin in full relief, but with eyes and hair painted. The upper section of the jar is painted to represent a poncho worn over the shoulders. The poncho is striped vertically in dark brown, rust, and cream on the front and in the back in stripes of dark brown only, possibly to represent the hair of the figure. This jar is interesting as illustrating the manner in which ponchos were worn. Late Nazca per Schoeler--MWS.

Vessel

Artist Unknown (Nazca) — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 02:01:18 -0400

Title	Vessel
Artist	Artist Unknown (Nazca)
Date	3rd century B.C.-A.D. 6th century
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	On view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, G260

Double-spout vase with a band carrying two Pumas painted in polychrome on a white ground. Note the spotted body of the Puma and the long projecting tongue, characteristic of this beast in Nazca pottery and textiles.

Double spout jar

Artist Unknown (Nazca) — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 02:01:38 -0500

Title	Double spout jar
Artist	Artist Unknown (Nazca)
Date	3rd century BCE - 7th century CE
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Polychrome Round Pot with double spout linked by bridge; design shows large pelican about to eat 3 small black and white killer whales on red background

Vase with puma motif

Artist Unknown (Nazca) — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 02:01:20 -0400

Title	Vase with puma motif
Artist	Artist Unknown (Nazca)
Date	3rd century B.C.-A.D. 6th century
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Large vase with shallow flared neck painted in polychrome, with two stylized pumas. Rigid ring handles on shoulders, one of the two missing.

Vessel

Artist Unknown (Nazca) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 03:18:02 -0500

Title	Vessel
Artist	Artist Unknown (Nazca)
Date	3rd century B.C.-A.D. 6th century
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Large ovoid jar representing a crouching human figure whose head forms neck of vase. All details except nose and turban headdress painted in polychrome on polished red ground. Rounded bottom, stand.

Stirrup spout vessel

Artist Unknown (Moche) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 03:45:30 -0500

Title	Stirrup spout vessel
Artist	Artist Unknown (Moche)
Date	3rd century B.C.-A.D. 8th century
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

stirrup vessel with warrior motif painted on each side, polychromed earthenware, Peru, Moche no dims. on cat. cards; 200BC-700AD

Vase with Faces

Artist Unknown (Nazca) — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 02:06:28 -0500

Title	Vase with Faces
Artist	Artist Unknown (Nazca)
Date	2nd century B.C.-A.D. 6th century
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

vase with three bands of faces depicting the different races; polychromed pottery in browns, yellow and gray

Large cup

Artist Unknown (Nazca) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:57:59 -0500

Title	Large cup
Artist	Artist Unknown (Nazca)
Date	100 B.C.-A.D. 600
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Large cup or bowl with slightly flared mouth and all-over design of checked and plain squares about 1/2 in. in area alternating in rows around sides. Such purely geometrical designs are rare in Nazca pottery.

Beaker

Artist Unknown (Nazca) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 03:33:59 -0500

Title	Beaker
Artist	Artist Unknown (Nazca)
Date	100 B.C.-A.D. 600
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Beaker with painted frieze of long-necked white birds and snakes. Rounded bottom, stand.

Bowl with Swimmer Motifs

Artist Unknown (Nazca) — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 02:01:39 -0500

Title	Bowl with Swimmer Motifs
Artist	Artist Unknown (Nazca)
Date	100 B.C.-A.D. 600
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Spherical Jar decorated with a horizontal band showing two figures against a background of conventionalized lines representing water. Polychrome painting. Rounded bottom, stand.

Effigy vessel

Artist Unknown (Nazca) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 03:17:56 -0500

Title	Effigy vessel
Artist	Artist Unknown (Nazca)
Date	100 B.C.-A.D. 600
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Jar in the form of a man's head painted in polychrome to represent a mummy mask. Top of head draped in a turban. Rounded bottom, stand.

Vessel

Artist Unknown (Nazca) — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 02:15:24 -0400

Title	Vessel
Artist	Artist Unknown (Nazca)
Date	100 B.C.-A.D. 600
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	On view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, G260

Double spout water jar decorated in polychrome with two large fishes in their mouths. Frieze of peppers below.

Effigy vessel

Artist Unknown (Nazca) — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 02:01:19 -0400

Title	Effigy vessel
Artist	Artist Unknown (Nazca)
Date	100 B.C.-A.D. 600
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	On view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, G260

Bird-shaped whistle-vase with a single upright spout emerging from the back and connected by a handle with the head. The eyes of the bird are painted, but the beak is modelled. Across the breast a double row of worms painted in polychrome. Highly conventionalized wings painted on each side. Tiahuanico influence.

Vessel

Artist Unknown (Nazca) — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 02:01:14 -0500

Title	Vessel
Artist	Artist Unknown (Nazca)
Date	100 B.C.-600 A.D.
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	On view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, G260

Pot in form of Fish with a double spout handle rising from the back. Slight modelling on head, tail, and fin area. Other features painted in grey, black, yellow, red and white. Broken at tail; cracked around head.

Vessel

Artist Unknown (Nazca) — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 02:21:24 -0400

Title	Vessel
Artist	Artist Unknown (Nazca)
Date	1st century B.C.-A.D. 6th century
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Double-spout vase painted in polychrome with two couchant winged figures. The heads wear an elaborate coiled headdress tipped with plant forms that spring from other parts of the body and from the serpent staff held in left hand of figure. Painted face with long projecting tongue. Wings of figures are decorated with human heads and terminate in feathers.

Vessel

Artist Unknown (Nazca) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 03:14:46 -0500

Title	Vessel
Artist	Artist Unknown (Nazca)
Date	100 B.C.-A.D. 600
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Jar with rounded base in the form of a human figure wearing a puma mask. Details of the face in relief, and arms, holding a club and a trophy head in front of the body, in low relief. Two toed- rectangles indicate feet at bottom of body. Details of face, arms, trophy head, feet, and a garment hanging over the shoulders in back, painted in red, brown, grey, and white on buff slip ground. Single spout handle. Burnished.

Vessel in the form of a Duck

Artist Unknown (Moche) — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 02:01:52 -0500

Title	Vessel in the form of a Duck
Artist	Artist Unknown (Moche)
Date	1st-8th century
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

red clay vessel decorated in cream and red; C-shaped handle from duck's head to back, with a spout at center

Vessel

Artist Unknown (Moche) — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 02:02:00 -0400

Title	Vessel
Artist	Artist Unknown (Moche)
Date	c. 100-200
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

two figures seated on round body of vessel with plates of food in front of them; spouts protrude from backs of both figures and joins in a "U" shape; beige with maroon highlights

Vessel

Artist Unknown (Moche) — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 02:01:11 -0400

Title	Vessel
Artist	Artist Unknown (Moche)
Date	200-600
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	On view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, G260

Stirrup-handle jar in the form of an owl with a fat body. The face, plastically rendered, is painted buff color; the rest of the body is red and burnished.

Effigy vessel

Artist Unknown (Moche) — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 02:31:59 -0500

Title	Effigy vessel
Artist	Artist Unknown (Moche)
Date	200-600
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	On view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, G260

Stirrup-handle jar in the form of a llama with saddle bags slung over back. The body and saddle bags are painted terra cotta color with details of head, halter, and binding ropes in buff. Ears in relief, featues slightly modelled.

Jar

Artist Unknown (Moche) — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:06:32 -0500

Title	Jar
Artist	Artist Unknown (Moche)
Date	4th century
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Large vase with a figure in relief representing the god of corn, standing between two peaks of the Sierras. This symbolical representation of the mountain peaks grew out of the fact that often only patch of snow on them are visible at a distance. Shape Vicus (?).

Stirrup-handle jar

Artist Unknown (Moche) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:57:53 -0500

Title	Stirrup-handle jar
Artist	Artist Unknown (Moche)
Date	5th-6th century
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Stirrup-handle jar with painted decoration of a rooster in rust red on cream slip.

Vessel

Artist Unknown (Moche) — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 02:01:41 -0400

Title	Vessel
Artist	Artist Unknown (Moche)
Date	5th-6th century
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Pot in the form of a warrior in full regalia. Painted details on costume and face.

Vessel

Artist Unknown (Moche) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:31:02 -0500

Title	Vessel
Artist	Artist Unknown (Moche)
Date	5th-6th century
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Stirrup-handle jar with painted design of a mythical creature, half fish, half jaguar, in rust red on the panel of cream slip covering one half of the jar.

Vessel with Lobster Motif

Artist Unknown (Moche) — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 02:01:50 -0500

Title	Vessel with Lobster Motif
Artist	Artist Unknown (Moche)
Date	400-499
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Stirrup-handle jar with a crab modelled in full relief on top. The crab is painted in reddish brown with details in cream on a cream slip ground. Lower part of jar painted in the same reddish brown and burnished.

Vessel

Artist Unknown (Moche) — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 02:01:20 -0400

Title	Vessel
Artist	Artist Unknown (Moche)
Date	400-599
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	On view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, G260

Jug, stirrup handle, painted.with a design of two running messengers, in full regalia, carrying weapons and wearing elaborate puma-head helmets. The area between the warriors is filled with the spreading wints fanning out behind each body. The design is in rust red on a cream slip, and the red is used on a series of double lines decorating the spout and the stirrup handle. Handle repaired.Something inside of jug, perhaps loose debris.

Effigy vessel

Artist Unknown (Moche) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 02:35:52 -0500

Title	Effigy vessel
Artist	Artist Unknown (Moche)
Date	6th century
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Portrait vase with stirrup handle. The vase represents a seated man, knees drawn up to chin and gripped with the hands. The modelling of the head, covered with a close-fitting cap, is bold an vigorous, with the melancholy expression conveyed with great skill. The rudimentary modelling of the limbs emphasizes the powerful realism of the head.

Portrait vessel

Artist Unknown (Moche) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 02:29:08 -0500

Title	Portrait vessel
Artist	Artist Unknown (Moche)
Date	6th century
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Portrait vase representing the head of warrior with three scars on his face. The head is closely wrapped in a scarf that ties under the chin and is bound by a band around the forehead. The expression of the face reflects clearly the suffering of the wounded man.

Effigy vessel

Artist Unknown (Nazca) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 02:49:54 -0500

Title	Effigy vessel
Artist	Artist Unknown (Nazca)
Date	650-799
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Large head with wide flattened brow and painted face. The enormous, thin nose, ears, and pointed chin are in full relief. The mouth is a narrow slit with black lips; the almond shaped eyes and thin eyebrows are painted. A triangular area, extending from beneath the eyes to the chin on each side of the nose, is painted red. Cheeks edged with black paint, possibly representing a beard. Wavy vertical lines of black on back of skull represent hair, as does the line of black across the forehead. The figure wears a brick red skullcap. Surface highly burnished. The size of this example makes it an important one. Schoeler says: early Nazca--MWS.

Figurine of a seated deer

Artist Unknown (late Moche-early Chimu) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:49:47 -0500

Title	Figurine of a seated deer
Artist	Artist Unknown (late Moche-early Chimu)
Date	8th-11th century
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Figurine of Seated Deer with Stirrup Spout attached from neck to rear; legs are folded underneath the body and the head is turned perpendicular to the body; red-brown slip, orangeware clay

Globular vessel

Artist Unknown (late Moche (early Chimu)) — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 02:48:00 -0500

Title	Globular vessel
Artist	Artist Unknown (late Moche (early Chimu))
Date	8th-10th century
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

globular vessel, flat base, stirrup with centrally located vertical spout; 2 raised deer figures on cream slip background; base, deer, and spouts polished red clay

Bottle

Artist Unknown (Inka (Inca)) — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 02:01:22 -0400

Title	Bottle
Artist	Artist Unknown (Inka (Inca))
Date	1400-1532
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	On view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, G260

two bulbous chambers with long necks; necks connected with handle; one neck topped with partially reclining cat; other neck has flat ring mouth; four crescent-shaped indenations on each chamber; dark patina

Urpu (Storage Jar)

Artist Unknown (Inka (Inca)) — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 02:21:26 -0400

Title	Urpu (Storage Jar)
Artist	Artist Unknown (Inka (Inca))
Date	15th century
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	On view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, G260

Jar, aryballos type, with two handles near base. A diminutive animal head in relief appears at the base of the neck. The front of the body is decorated with vertical panels separated by narrow bands, painted with lozenge and sawtooth motifs in red, black, mauve and white. The flaring neck is painted with horizontal bands of elongated lozenges in red and black, and under the rim is a border of reciprocal sawtooth pattern in the same colors. The back of the jar is painted brick red with a band of interlocking 'X' forms extending half-way around the shoulders.Aryballos (MWS)

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Andean Ceramics

Double spout vessel

Double spout vessel

900-200 B.C.

Jar

Jar

3rd century BCE-6th century AD

Vessel

Vessel

3rd century B.C.-A.D. 6th century

Double spout jar

Double spout jar

3rd century BCE - 7th century CE

Vase with puma motif

Vase with puma motif

3rd century B.C.-A.D. 6th century

Vessel

Vessel

3rd century B.C.-A.D. 6th century

Stirrup spout vessel

Stirrup spout vessel

3rd century B.C.-A.D. 8th century

Vase with Faces

Vase with Faces

2nd century B.C.-A.D. 6th century

Large cup

Large cup

100 B.C.-A.D. 600

Beaker

Beaker

100 B.C.-A.D. 600

Bowl with Swimmer Motifs

Bowl with Swimmer Motifs

100 B.C.-A.D. 600

Effigy vessel

Effigy vessel

100 B.C.-A.D. 600

Vessel

Vessel

100 B.C.-A.D. 600

Effigy vessel

Effigy vessel

100 B.C.-A.D. 600

Vessel

Vessel

100 B.C.-600 A.D.

Vessel

Vessel

1st century B.C.-A.D. 6th century

Vessel

Vessel

100 B.C.-A.D. 600

Vessel in the form of a Duck

Vessel in the form of a Duck

1st-8th century

Vessel

Vessel

c. 100-200

Vessel

Vessel

200-600

Effigy vessel

Effigy vessel

200-600

Jar

Jar

4th century

Stirrup-handle jar

Stirrup-handle jar

5th-6th century

Vessel

Vessel

5th-6th century

Vessel

Vessel

5th-6th century

Vessel with Lobster Motif

Vessel with Lobster Motif

400-499

Vessel