A Moche Stirrup Bottle with a Seated Man, ca. 200 - 400 CE Writing and Manuscripts sensitively adapted for modern wear

sensitively adapted for modern wear while retaining its ancient character

Intact and in very good condition overall

Placed over the heart

she is one of six desert painters known as the Numina Sisters who draw on Indigenous knowledge to create their signature dotted paintings

creating a subtle rhythmic pattern

A Moche Stirrup Bottle with a Seated Man, ca. 200 - 400 CE Writing and Manuscripts sensitively adapted for modern wearThis splendid red brown ceramic stirrup bottle is finely rendered by its artisan creator in the form of a man sitting with knees to chest and arms wrapped around his knees, his head turned slightly to the right, with long straight hair, wide eyes, bushy eyebrows, beaked nose, and large ears, wearing a striped poncho with his feet peeking out beneath, a stirrup spout attached at the back Well before the rise of the Inca state in the fifteenth century,