Gourd

AD 100-650 (Early Intermediate)

11.7 cm 7 cm 10.4 cm

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Moche artworks are often decorated with narrative imagery conveying myths or historical reenactments thereof. Others depict important members of Moche society, from rulers to warriors to religious specialists. The images follow a symbolic system that, like a language, has its...

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Throckmorton Fine Art, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John G. Bourne, August 1, 1994, by purchase; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 2017.
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