Tripod bowl; Huari Culture, Peru, 700-1000 A.D.

Tripod bowl; Huari Culture, Peru, 700-1000 AD.
Terracotta.
Measurements: 8 x 15 cm.
Terracotta bowl supported on three legs designed as a tripod, made in terracotta. The piece presents ornamentation in the exterior zone of the body. The Huari (or Wari) culture flourished in the central Andes between the 7th and 13th centuries A.D., extending to the current Peruvian departments of Lambayeque, Arequipa and Cusco. Their pottery, in constant evolution throughout the history of this culture, presents different styles, and includes all types of vessels and other objects, many of them zoomorphic or anthropomorphic, generally pieces for ceremonial use.huari pottery was influenced by three cultures: the Nazca (varied polychromy), the huarpa (construction techniques) and the Tiahuanaco (pictorial motifs). In fact, scholars say that the Huari is the synthesis of these three Andean cultures. The oldest Huari pieces are large in size, with a clear Tiahuanaco influence, although little by little the objects will be smaller and mass-produced. The characteristic motifs of Huari ceramics include brushed symbolic elements, representations of animals, mythological beings and mythical beings with feline heads.