Bowl 4th–7th century Cajamarca This bowl, covered with concentric spirals and inverted “S” motifs that emulate sinuous waves, represents the fusion of both coastal and highland craft traditions, in a style known as Coastal Cajamarca, popularized across the mid-Jequetepeque Valley, Peru, between the fourth and seventh centuries Cajamarca potters of the northern highlands developed a highly distinctive style that was at once simple and sophisticated, a source of aesthetic inspiration for artists in both neighboring and distant regions. This vessel features delicate red motifs on a cream bac

Bowl 4th–7th century Cajamarca This bowl, covered with concentric spirals and inverted “S” motifs that emulate sinuous waves, represents the fusion of both coastal and highland craft traditions, in a style known as Coastal Cajamarca, popularized across the mid-Jequetepeque Valley, Peru, between the fourth and seventh centuries Cajamarca potters of the northern highlands developed a highly distinctive style that was at once simple and sophisticated, a source of aesthetic inspiration for artists in both neighboring and distant regions. This vessel features delicate red motifs on a cream background—the cream reflecting the color of the kaolin paste typically used by Cajamarca potters since the beginning of the first millennium Potters in the coastal mid-Jequetepeque Valley, inspired by Cajamarca, poured their expertise into the production of fancy bowls, plates, jars and spoons. These were finely painted using a red slip on a cream background, an aesthetic strongly associated with artistic canons of the Moche, their better-known neighbors on the coast (see, for example, accession number and , among others). Stylized sea-related motifs, like the waves represented in a symmetrical arrangement on this bowl, along with geometric and other schematic designs, became part of a corpus of iconographic motifs shared across northern Peru between the fourth and seventh centuries , a period of intensive regional interaction and stylistic exchange. Based on the distribution of the coveted Cajamarca-style vessels, this economic network included the highland Cajamarca Basin, the coastal Moche and Lambayeque valleys, Huamachuco and the Callejón de Huaylas in the highlands, and even Chachapoyas on the eastern slopes of the Andes. Although the distribution of Cajamarca pottery eventually became far more ubiquitous, reaching the south and central highlands between the eighth and eleventh centuries , Coastal Cajamarca pottery across the Andes se

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