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Seated anthropomorphic figure with "dipper" and mat

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Form: anthropomorphic, seated figure, spout on the back (broken off) Colour/technique: grey body, cream engobed, painted brown Vessel body: entire figure engobed in cream colour, brown facial tattooing/painting, headdress/covering with brown lines, outer garment with brown stripes, in the hands vessel "dipper" and mat RS: brown sling on which hangs a vessel with stirrup spout at the side Special: facial tattooing/painting (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Height: 17,9 cm
Depth: 14,5 cm
Width: 13,6 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47891

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Trujillo
    who
    Julius van der Zypen
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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