Description

Nasca pottery is renowned for its vibrant use of colours – up to 10 or 12 on a single vessel – and intricate, highly stylized, abstract designs. Geometric designs became much more common in later phases as complicated iconography slowly transformed into more compact, abstract, simplified forms of meaning, as opposed to the vibrancy of Middle Nasca style. The nature of the geometric patterns here, such as the proliferating “star with eye” motif on four faces that look like a sunburst, suggests it may fall under Middle Horizon period.