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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 245907, member: 2844&quot;]It is from Peru, inspired by pre-Columbian Nazca pottery, with a bit of Moche thrown in. Although it is often sold as Cusco/Cuzco pottery, it is not made in Cuzco, but in the coastal plain of Peru.</p><p>Nazca and Moche (Mochica, Chimu) were coastal cultures, and like other coastal Peruvian cultures, they made better pottery than the Inca/Qechua of Cuzco. And like other coastal Peruvian cultures, they made a lot of pottery with human figures.</p><p>Pre-Columbian Nazca:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalmuseumindia.gov.in%2Fimages%2Fritualistic-big.jpg&amp;sp=46727b2bf3803f5b4b4cbbd60a5e0b80" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Pre-Columbian Moche:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https%3A%2F%2Fka-perseus-images.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fd73063aea73750052ccf952ecf8627d51c90b238.jpg&amp;sp=ca5b8cf354bfdfdc116e4f1ce8075437" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Cuzco is the ancient capital of the Incas, now a beautiful colonial style town in the Andes. It is a prime tourist destination in Peru, start of the Inca Trail. Nowadays you can find tourist items from all over Peru in Cuzco, which is probably why many people associate this Nazca pottery with Cuzco.</p><p>Cuzco does make its own ceramics in typical Andean baroque style:</p><p><img src="https://www.bestofperutravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Tater-Vera-Ceramics-Cusco-8.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>And inspired by pre-Columbian and traditional textiles:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages1.novica.net%2Fpictures%2F4%2Fp205883_2a_400.jpg&amp;sp=45330317582cd688a6b1268d595410cf" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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