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Mochica Ceramic Moulded Cormorant Jugs

Looking at these Mochica (dated from 100 to 700 AD) jugs, the boundaries between the categories we use today to classify things and beings seem to be fading away. Indeed, here the bodies of the two cormorants emerge harmoniously from tubers, without this being a limit to the detailed representation of beauty and movement transcribed through these birds.

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Uploaded on April 7, 2020
Taken on November 3, 2018