Moche Pottery Stirrup Spout Bottle with Raised Bird Decoration Levant and Sangbata

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Moche Pottery Stirrup Spout Bottle with Raised Bird Decoration Levant and SangbataPre Columbian Era, Moche Culture, Phase IIIV, c. 200600 AD, Northern Peru An exceptional and beautifully balanced Moche stirrup spout bottle, crafted during the height of Moche ceramic innovation. Squat and strong in form, the vessels broad body is adorned with a continuous raised motif of a long necked birdlikely the coastal cormorantstylized yet remarkably accurate in anatomical rendering. The birds head repeats six times around the shoulder in an