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. This bottle dates to near the end of Nasca as drought and escalating violence led to increasing migrations and culture change.