Vintage Peru Chulucanas Art Pottery Fish Pisces Vase Signed S Moncada Peruvian

Description

This attractive vase is the creation of a member of the famous Moncada family of the small town of Chulucanas in Northwestern Peru. The semi-glossy glazed front of the vase features a design of two happy fish etched into the vase. The back of the vase is unglazed and undecorated. The foot and the lip are also glazed.
The vase measures approximately 9 1/2 inches high x approximately 8 inches across. The lip where flared is approximately 2 3/8 inches across. It is in great condition with no chips, cracks, or repairs.
Etched on the bottom of the vase is the artist name: ‘S. Moncada’. As the piece is undated we cannot certify the date.
The website
www.cotlear.com
discusses the Moncada family of potters and their significance:
“In the 1960s the Moncada and Sosa families of Chulucanas began a serious study of early decorative ceramic methods. They began by making fruit and animal shapes, and later added human figures typical of the local cultural environment. These included "chicheras", women with children, families, dancers, birds and a variety of animals from the desert.
The negative-positive technique was researched and its renewed use has now evolved into a wide variety of shades ranging from light to a dark, almost black ocher. The color is obtained by selecting several fuels such as tender or ripe (fresh or dry) leaves from banana and mango trees. The quantity of fuel placed in the second firing is what provides the variety of shades.”
The cotlear.com website provides more history on ceramic making in Chulacanas:
“Thousands of years ago, the potters of the Vicus culture in the coastal deserts of Peru were known throughout the land as the finest ceramic artists. Using the clay beneath their feet, the natural symbols around them and a strong religious inspiration to guide them, they fashioned elegantly shaped, subtly painted ceramic pots. Hand burnished with volcanic rock, decorated with earth colors of naturally-dyed slips, and based on their ancient culture for motifs as old as time, Chulucanas pottery is made by the descendants of these indigenous artist of northern Peru. Chulucanas pottery can be considered a true inheritance from the Precolombian art of the Vicus, not only because of its quality but also because its artists have captured the techniques that were developed more than 2,000 years ago in the northern coast of Peru. The artists search for a message or theme of a piece which guides them as they work on it to completion. This type of art is so natural that you can detect the smell of earth and wood fires on the pieces.
To own Chulucanas pottery and art is to own a piece of history of ancient America.”
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