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Application: anthropo-zoomorphic figure (owl); fineline painting: anthropo-zoomorphic figures

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Shape: spherical with base ring, figurative appliqué on top, stirrup spout on the side of the figure's back Colour/technique: cream engobed, painted brown (fineline technique) Stirrup spout: cream engobed Vessel body: circumferential frieze with running anthropo-zoomorphic mixed creature (bird/hummingbird), surrounded by plants Appliqué: anthropo-zoomorphic mixed creature (bird) with headdress/covering, ear decoration (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 28,6 cm
Depth: 22,2 cm
Width: 15,8 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 32528

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Trujillo
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    P. Otto Zembsch (1841-05-31 - 1911-03-02) - Collectors
    Ernst Wilhelm Eduard von Knorr (1840-03-08 - 1920-02-17) - Former Possessors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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