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Nazca culture huaco, double spout and bridge vessel representing an orca. Moche Portrait pot. This fine pot appears to represent a good-humored Moche man. Huaco or Guaco is the generic name given in Peru mostly to earthen vessels and other finely made pottery artworks by the indigenous peoples of the Americas found in pre-Columbian sites such as burial locations, sanctuaries, temples and other ...
Huaco Retrato Mochica in the Larco Museum, in Lima, Peru. One famous Moche portrait vessel is known as the Huaco Retrato Mochica. The portrait was made during the Late Moche period (ca. 600 CE), according to the chronology made by Rafael Larco Hoyle in 1948. The ceramic portrait is also an example of a stirrup spout vessel of a Moche ruler.
Moche portrait vessel, Musée du quai Branly, ca. 100—700 CE, 16 x 29 x 22 cm Jane Osti (Cherokee Nation), with her award-winning pottery, 2006. Ceramics of Indigenous peoples of the Americas is an art form with at least a 7500-year history in the Americas. [1] Pottery is fired ceramics with clay as a component.
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Huaco may refer to: Guaco, a type of plant found in Central America, South America, ... Huaco (pottery), a type of pottery in Peru This page was last edited on 2 ...
20th-century Jingdezhen ware, with factory mark: 中国景德镇 ("China Jingdezhen") and MADE IN CHINA in English. A factory mark is a marking affixed by manufacturers on their productions in order to authenticate them.
As defined and used by Southwestern archaeologists, a ware is "a large grouping of pottery types which has little temporal or spatial implication but consists of stylistically varied types that are similar technologically and in method of manufacture", and "a defined ware is a ceramic assemblage in which all attributes of paste composition (with the possible exception of temper) and of surface ...