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. As such, the simplicity of the design here suggests it dates to earlier Nasca phases, though geometric designs became much more common in later phases as complicated iconography slowly transformed into more compact, abstract, simplified forms of meaning. Simple patterns and bands such as those on this vessel could in fact contain hidden meaning yet to be discovered, that may never be known. There is reason to believe it has some association with agricultural fertility due to its importance in a growing population.