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Fineline painting: zoomorphic; application: anthropomorphic head

Shape: double cone-shaped with stand ring, anthropomorphic application, stirrup spout on the back of the figure Colour/technique: red body, brown and cream engobed, painted brown (fineline technique) Stirrup spout: brown engobed Vessel body: horizontally divided in two, lower part engobed brown, upper part engobed cream-coloured, painted with anthropo-zoomorphic figures (bird) Application: anthropomorphic head, face dark brown, eyes cream-coloured, ear ornaments, neck ornaments (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 21,7 cm
Depth: 18 cm
Width: 13,1 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 4682
Related object(s)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    José Mariano Macedo (1823 - 1894) - 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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