Chimu Ceramic Pitcher Chimu Imperial Period 1300 -1532 AD Museo de Arte Precolombino, Cusco - Peru Chimu artists opted for the color black in their funerary and ceremonial ceramics, because this enabled them to symbolically communicate their relationship with the inner world, or underworld, inhabited by their ancestors. Black is also the colour of the night, the time and space inhabited by the moon, Si, this northern society's most important deity. In this pirtcher, four raised rings encircle a cylindrical form, creating a stepped container, The overall effect of this piece is that a geometri
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3455 x 4608 px | 29.3 x 39 cm | 11.5 x 15.4 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
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Chimu Ceramic Pitcher Chimu Imperial Period 1300 -1532 AD Museo de Arte Precolombino, Cusco - Peru Chimu artists opted for the color black in their funerary and ceremonial ceramics, because this enabled them to symbolically communicate their relationship with the inner world, or underworld, inhabited by their ancestors. Black is also the colour of the night, the time and space inhabited by the moon, Si, this northern society's most important deity. In this pirtcher, four raised rings encircle a cylindrical form, creating a stepped container, The overall effect of this piece is that a geometric synthesis, with the three-dimensional form of the object created by combining the circle and step motif, two shapes used since tha dawn of the Andean civilization to symbolize water and mountains.