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Relief: anthropomorphic face

Shape: spherical vase with conical neck and anthropomorphic relief Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream engobed, painted cream engobed, relief on neck: red-brown engobed, rim with surrounding frieze of circles, relief of an anthropomorphic face with many wrinkles, the mouth tapered to a whistle, completely engobed in cream colour, eyes and mouth opening as a hole Vessel body: red-brown engobed, cream-coloured band on the neck of the vessel (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vase
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 22,2 x 19,8 x 19,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18349

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche

who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors

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