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

Provenance:  Private New Jersey collection

two amulets are almost always found together -- the carpenter's set square

Tefnut- the principle of moisture

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,