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. Due to the minimal use of colour and simple patterns, this vessel may date to either early or final phases of Nasca, periods which lacked the extravagance of middle phases. Its depiction of plant elements reflects the importance of agriculture in Nasca society.