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Architectural model

Form: spherical vase with stand ring, spout on the side (broken off), application: house-shaped architectural model with window, on the roof a zoomorphic figure (toad/frog) Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream-coloured engobed (partially heavily rubbed off), painted beige/orange, relief vessel body: horizontally divided in two, upper part and application engobed in cream colour, surrounding frieze with polymorphic geometric painting, in relief a step and a clay vessel; lower part engobed in red-brown, base ring red body Application: engobed in cream colour with red-brown dots Special: originally, according to the drawing, there were two toads/frogs sitting on the roof (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Height: 20,5 cm
Depth: 13,7 cm
Width: 14,2 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18281

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Moche
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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