Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 400 CE. A mold-made blackware portrait vessel depicting a youthful visage donning an elaborate headdress adorned with a zoomorphic head – perhaps that of a ...

Among the 45,000 pieces in the collection of the Larco Museum in Lima are extraordinarily detailed ceramic portraits crafted by the artisans of the Moche civilization (C.E. 100 to 800). In his book ...

Moche Portraits from Ancient Peru by Christopher B. Donnan, University of Texas Press, $39.95, ISBN 0292716222 Reviewed by Nicholas Saunders IT is AD 500 on the desert coast of northern ...

Teens used plastic skull vessels to create their Moche portrait vessels which are ceramic vessels featuring naturalistic representations of human faces that were unique to the Moche culture of ...

But no. According to Jago Cooper, head of the museum’s Americas section, the closest it has come was an exhibition devoted to another civilisation altogether, the Moche, who thrived centuries ...

(So What Do We Do with Our History?), sits quietly among ancient Andean ceramic portrait vessels created by Moche artists more than 1,000 years ago. De Orbegoso’s figures are displayed in the Art ...

A ceramic portrait vessel dating to 1000–700 BCE from the Chavín culture, one of the earliest pre-Columbian societies in the region, was also given back last week.