Modeled seated male Moche stirrup spout bottle
Modeled male figure red with white paint
Moche
Art and Art History Collection (AAHC), College of Fine Arts, The University of Texas at Austin
Early Intermediate Period (200 BCE-500 CE)
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Jack Danciger Collection
22.5 (h) cm.
8.9 (h) in.
Three dimensional object
Ceramic
1608-14
Peru--North Coast
Nasca vase with trophy head
miniature head bottle
Nasca
Art and Art History Collection (AAHC), College of Fine Arts, The University of Texas at Austin
Early Intermediate Period (200 BCE-600 CE)
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Jack Danciger Collection
9 (h) cm.
3.5 (h) in.
Three dimensional object
Ceramic
1608-266
Peru--South Coast
Nasca double spout and bridge with hummingbirds around flowers
This piece is a double-spout-and-bridge vessel decorated with a multitude of multicolored hummingbirds swarming around a pair of flowers.in shape, with a double-spout-and-bridge on the top. The overall shape is fairly straightforward in shape, but its detail comes in with what is rendered on the vessel’s surface. The base ceramic is a reddish brown, signaling that it was created in an oxidized atmosphere. It is minimally glossy, reflecting only a small amount of light. The vessel overall is decidedly polychrome, featuring hummingbirds of seven colors: yellow, red, pink, light blue, and white, with black outlines on a dark blue background. One of the flowers is white, and the other is yellow, and each has a dark center.
The hummingbirds swarm across the entire vessel, with some of their tails wrapping down to near its base. They are not positioned at random however. The birds all circle around the pair of flowers on each side of the vessel, seemingly jostling for a spot around the primary food sources of a hummingbird. Both the flowers and the hummingbirds are rendered naturalistically, with a fairly high level of detail present on the birds. This can be seen in countershading present on real hummingbirds, as well as individual wing and tail feathers painted on with black outlines.
Nasca
Art and Art History Collection (AAHC), College of Fine Arts, The University of Texas at Austin
Early Intermediate Period (200 BCE-600 CE)
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Jack Danciger Collection
13 (h) cm.
5 (h) in.
Three dimensional object
Ceramic
1608-259
Peru--South Coast
Nasca double spout and bridge with anthropomorphic masked being
Anthropomorphic masked being
Nasca
Art and Art History Collection (AAHC), College of Fine Arts, The University of Texas at Austin
Early Intermediate Period (200 BCE-600 CE)
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Jack Danciger Collection
18 (h) cm.
7 (h) in.
Three dimensional object
Ceramic
1608-256
Peru--South Coast
Nasca double spout and bridge with a feline and sun bursts
This double-spout-and-bridge vessel is an extremely common form in Nasca ceramics. It is round and bulbous, narrower towards the top, and wider towards the bottom. It is topped with two straight, cylindrical spouts pointed vertically. An arched handle connects the two spouts in the middle. The spouts and handle are a red brick color, and the body of the vessel is a light sand color. The surface of the vessel appears smooth with a burnished shine. It contains spotted cat iconography, painted in polychrome earth tones, and is divided into two registers.
The larger, primary register depicts two spotted feline forms resembling the pampas cat. The cats are outlined in dark brown, and filled in with grey, sand, and red brick colors. The cat’s eyes are round and the pupils are completely surrounded by white, giving the cat a stunned expression. There is no sense of light or shadows, rendering the imagery two-dimensional. In the smaller bottom register, separated from the top by a bold dark brown line, an abstract, geometric motif is repeated four times in dark brown and red brick colors. These motifs may depict half-suns, or perhaps the dividing line is meant to represent a ground line, and the motifs are a sort of crop. While the pampas cat figures contain biomorphic shapes, the rays of the motif are triangles, and its centers are composed of concentric arches. The arches in the motifs are alternating red brick and dark brown with the sand background showing in between.
Nasca
Art and Art History Collection (AAHC), College of Fine Arts, The University of Texas at Austin
Early Intermediate Period (200 BCE-600 CE)
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Jack Danciger Collection
16.5 (h) cm.
6.5 (h) in.
Three dimensional object
Ceramic
1608-255
Peru--South Coast
Nasca double spout and bridge with birds
Repeating birds
Nasca
Art and Art History Collection (AAHC), College of Fine Arts, The University of Texas at Austin
Late Intermediate Period (900‐1450 CE)
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Jack Danciger Collection
15.2 (h) cm.
6 (h) in.
Three dimensional object
Ceramic
1608-253
Peru--North Coast
Nasca double spout and bridge with anthropomorphic masked being
Anthropomorphic masked being
Nasca
Art and Art History Collection (AAHC), College of Fine Arts, The University of Texas at Austin
Early Intermediate Period (200 BCE-500 CE)
If you would like to publish this image in print or electronically, please contact the Curator of the Art & Art History Collection, Dr. Astrid Runggaldier, at astrid@austin.utexas.edu.
Jack Danciger Collection
14 (h) cm.
5.5 (h) in.
Three dimensional object
Ceramic
1608-252
Peru--South Coast
Nasca double spout and bridge with birds, fish, and chili peppers
bird figures with fish and chili pepper
Nasca
Art and Art History Collection (AAHC), College of Fine Arts, The University of Texas at Austin
Early Intermediate Period (200 BCE-600 CE)
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Jack Danciger Collection
19 (h) cm.
7.5 (h) in.
Three dimensional object
Ceramic
1608-243
Peru--South Coast
Nasca Double Spout and Bridge Vessel with Birds and Anthropomorphic figure
This Nasca vessel has a sleek and economical form: the ceramic itself is not sculptural and emphasizes the use of 2-dimensional design in its style. A double spout and bridge that adorns the top of the vessel is the only part that is protruding from the piece. Polychromatic slips are used in the crafting process. Hues of yellow, red, blue, brown, creamy white, and black are present with varying levels of saturation. The reddish browns and the black hues are most vivid in the piece. The black slips are shown in heavy linework surrounding the images of the anthropomorphic figure and the birds on either side of the face, effectively creating contours that contribute to stylistic shading.
When viewing the vessel from the front side of its body, the focal point of the composition is the face of a figure, with birds positioned on either side of the being. However, the picture plane wraps around the top and sides of the body. The artist considers this composition from all sides of the vessel. It communicates a continuous and expansive, but still single, image. Observing the vessel with this fact in mind reveals that the anthropomorphic figure is arching itself over the ceramic body and appears to be weightless or floating. The feet do not meet the assumed ground of the picture plane. Birds placed adjacent to this imagery appear to be positioned in the same direction that the being is going. However, the exact spatial relationships between all the elements of the composition are ambiguous. The being has wide, almond shaped eyes and has many feline and raptorial features. The creature has gold accessories like a crown and animal whiskers. The creature adorns a cape with gold and beige circles and ends in two long fringes that frame the trophy heads which can be seen on the side opposite the figure's face. Many geometric shapes like circles and triangles appear in the imagery. The striped ‘signifiers’ on either side of the creature’s face end in sharp talons holding the two wide-beaked birds. There are two disc-shaped ear accessories protruding from the creature’s head.
Nasca
Art and Art History Collection (AAHC), College of Fine Arts, The University of Texas at Austin
Early Intermediate Period (200 BCE-600 CE)
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Jack Danciger Collection
20 (h) cm
8 (h) in.
Three dimensional object
Ceramic
1608-242
Peru--South Coast
Nasca double spout and bridge with birds
Repeating birds
Nasca
Art and Art History Collection (AAHC), College of Fine Arts, The University of Texas at Austin
Late Intermediate Period (900‐1450 CE)
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Jack Danciger Collection
16.5 (h) cm.
6.5 (h) in
Three dimensional object
Ceramic
1608-240
Peru--North Coast