Sicán-Lambayeque Civilization
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of Sicán-Lambayeque ceramics and textiles, dating from AD 900 to 1370. These derive from the pre-Columbian Sicán-Lambayeque culture located on the northern coast of Peru. This collection comprises ceramic mould-made vessels. The most common are double-spout-and-bridge vessels on a pedestal base, which often featured modelled heads. The Sicán moulds were complex, and bases, spouts and chambers could be produced in a single operation. Because of an emphasis on mass production, styles tend to be repetitive, with the body of the vessels generally black, made by using a technique called ‘smudge firing’. The Sicán-Lambayeque style emerged in the north coast valleys of Lambayeque, La Leche, Sana and Jequetepeque around AD 900, near the end of the Huari period, and continued as part of the Chimú kingdom from 1370 until 1450. The Sicán-Lambayeque culture developed following the decline of the Moche culture. It is known for skill in both agriculture and metallurgy, and worked with alloys of gold, silver and arsenic-copper.
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