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Fineline Painting: anthropo-zoomorphic figure

Shape: lenticular bowl, vessel opening at the top, handle on the side and with zoomorphic head (bird) at the end Colour/technique: pale red body, red-brown and cream engobed, painted red-brown (fineline technique) Handle: engobed in cream colour, painted red-brown; small opening at the head Vessel body: the top engobed in red-brown; the underside engobed in cream colour and painted with anthropo-zoomorphic hybrid creatures (head with octopus tentacles) Special: Fineline Painting (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Dipper
Dimensions
Height: 11,8 cm
Depth: 17,6 cm
Width: 26,3 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 2331
Related object(s)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Bastian, Adolf - Collectors
    Louis Sokoloski - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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