Chancay Ceramic Dolls

Ceramic guardian figures were important in chancay culture.

Chancay ceramic dolls.

Chancay doll of a mother and child with a pink blanket. They normally come in pairs of male and female figures with stocky almost triangular shaped bodies and upraised arms. These were usually large female looking dolls made from clay. 4 cm x w.

The chancay culture is believed to have been conquered and incorporated into the inca empire in the mid to late 13th century. 4 5 cm x h. The chancay people were exquisite ceramic and textile artisans. Ceramic dolls or female figurines were also created.

25 cm bfpc collection 2011 12. The chancay likely had a centralized political structure and formed a small regional state. Cuchimilco ceramic figures are almost always presented in pairs to represent family. The cuchimilco figures are unglazed terracotta figurines created between 1200 and 1450 ad by the chancay culture which developed in the latter part of the inca empire.

The dolls are modern day reproductions modeled after ancient cloth figures found in the graves of elite chancay people whose culture flourished in the arid coastal valley of peru during 1000 1460 ce. Think about the size of the china doll. Chancay doll of a mother and child with a striped blanket andean mestizo culture doll and chancay culture textiles 20th century doll and 1000 1460 ce textiles cotton camelid wool plant fibers and natural dyes l. Porcelain dolls that were made 80 to 100 years ago or more can be quite valuable.

For example a doll made in 1916 by the french sculptor albert marque one of 100 limited edition dolls dressed by the parisian couturier jeanne margaine lacroix was sold in 2014 by auction house theriault s for 300 000. There are porcelain dolls as small as 8 inches and baby dolls as big as 18 inches so size is a factor to consider when choosing one. Vessels are often large and quaintly shaped with the egg shaped jars being more common. Chancay burial dolls are a type of grave goods that were used by the chancay culture a pre columbian civilization located in modern day peru.

Peruâ s chancay culture settled fifty miles north of lima in the chancay valley between 900 and 1400 a d. See more ideas about pottery precolumbian archaeology. Therefore it is known as the black on white style. The chancay civilization produced ceramics on a large scale using mainly moulds.

This civilization was based mainly in the valleys of chancay and chillon which are on the central coast of peru.