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Toad/Frog

Form: zoomorphic, frog/toad, spout on the back (spout broken off) Colour/technique: white and red-brown engobed, polished, stirrups white, along the back VS: half-open mouth with white row of teeth, air sac indicated as a circle in the neck area, side of the head at eye level a volute (relief), belly white RS: on the back relief of a manioc plant, reddish brown and hind legs left side of the body: relief of three shrubs, white right side of the body: relief of a shrub, white (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 17,2 cm
Depth: 19,2 cm
Width: 12,7 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 4698
Related object(s)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Trujillo
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    José Mariano Macedo (1823 - 1894) - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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