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Fineline painting: birds and flowers

Shape: spherical bottle with four feet, spout at the top, handle broken off Colour/technique: brown and cream engobed, painted brown (fineline technique) Stirrup spout: cream engobed, surrounding row of brown dots on the rim of the spout Vessel body: horizontally divided in two, upper half engobed in cream colour, frieze with birds and flowers running around the base of the spout, row of dots running around underneath, lower half red-brown (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay bottle
Dimensions
Height: 24,3 cm
Depth: 12,5 cm
Width: 15,1 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 13057

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    I.M. Bolivar - Collectors
    Carl Plock - 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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