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Fineline painting: anthropo-zoomorphic figure

Shape: spherical with stand ring, stirrup spout on top Colour/technique: orange and cream engobed, painted red-brown (fineline technique) Stirrup spout: cream engobed Vessel body: divided vertically and at right angles to the axis of the stirrup spout into two fields, one half engobed in cream colour, there an anthropo-zoomorphic hybrid creature (fish) with a tumi in its hand, surrounded by fish, other half completely orange, stand ring alternating with the body of the vessel in orange and white (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 25,6 cm
Depth: 15,3 cm
Width: 15,3 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 13036

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    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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