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Fineline painting: anthropomorphic figure among aquatic animals

Shape: spherical, stirrup spout on top Colour/technique: cream engobed, painted brown (fineline technique) Stirrup spout: cream engobed, painted brown with millipedes Vessel body: completely filled with a fight scene between an anthropo-zoomorphic hybrid creature (crab) and anthropomorphic creatures with a snake belt ("Wrinkle Face"), between them various animals (painting partially heavily rubbed off) (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 23 x 15,3 x 15 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 13035

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche

who
I.M. Bolivar - Collectors
Carl Plock - Collectors

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