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Application: Bird; Fineline Painting: Plumage

Shape: spherical with stand ring, appliqué bird's neck and bird's head with whistling device, stirrup spout on the back of the head Colour/technique: yellow and red body, red-brown and cream engobed, painted red-brown (fineline technique) stirrup spout: red-brown engobed Vessel body: horizontally divided into two parts, lower part red body, upper part cream-coloured engobed and zoomorphically painted (strongly stylised birds) Special: fineline painting (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Height: 21,5 cm
Depth: 15,7 cm
Width: 11,2 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 757
Related object(s)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Trujillo
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Bastian, Adolf - Former Possessors
    Johannes Lührsen (1838 - 1903) - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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