NOVICA, in association with National Geographic, offers thousands of limited edition and one-of-a-kind gifts, jewelry, and home decor treasures handmade by master artists and artisans throughout the world. Birds silhouetted against a golden sun honor Chancay artistry with aesthetic grandeur. Comprising of two plates, this decorative set evidences Victoria Garcia's admiration for the Chancay (1100-1430 A.D.), renowned for their ceramic art. Vibrant with the spirit of Peru's past, this set makes an original decorative accent. Artisan Info: The ceramic art of Victoria Garcia, delicate in its elaboration and genuinely representative of Peru, possesses pre-Hispanic roots and a deceptive simplicity. Her dexterity as a loving potter exalts the earth, transforming it into noble clay works, finding always space for beauty. Jars, plates, masks and even utilitarian pieces of first rate quality emerge from her kiln in a creative song celebrating life. Her miraculous ceramic work has no voice but rather a reverential silence for its ancestral past, to the origins of water and earth - element and nourishment of her work. "I'm a self-taught ceramic artist - most of my learning I obtained in my workshop by the light of experimentation and reflexion. Nonetheless I did take courses in graphic design and ceramic art. I describe my work as contemporary ceramics of pre-Hispanic expression. I've been devoted to this labor for twelve years due to the artistic pleasure and by the possibility to express