Peru Pre ca 100700 AD Moche Pre Columbian Personified Vessel Earth Ware pottery

Rare pre Hispanic Moche culture, pre-Inca earthenware vessel. A beautiful interesting piece, created in the southern Peru region around the 100-700 AD by the Moche culture. This rare early period face-neck vessel has been crafted from red earth ware pottery depicting the personified body and face of a dignitary lord wearing a head cloth with royal attires and in the left hand with a baton. The Moche portrait vessels feature a highly individualized representation of human bodies and faces that are unique from this culture. These vessels were made in two parts molds, one for the front and the other for the back.  The Moche or Mochica civilization are the early Proto-Chimu culture that flourished in the northern coastal region of Peru with its capital near the present day Trujillo, from about the 100 to 700 AD. While this issue is the subject of some debate, many scholars contend that the Moche were not politically organized as a monolithic empire, they were likely a group of autonomous polities that shared a common culture as seen in the rich iconography and monumental architecture that survive today. The following is textual from an investigation by Shannon Marie Trono, from the University of Miami...."About the stylistic differences in the ceramic production of “face-neck” vessels from the Middle Moche Period (400-600 CE) of the Northern and Southern Moche regions. These face-neck vessels are also referred to as effigy vessels or cántaros cara gollete in Andean c