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Fineline painting: Animal between cacti

Shape: spherical, stirrup spout at the top Colour/technique: brown and cream engobed, painted brown (fineline technique) Stirrup spout: brown and white engobed, alternating with the colour of the vessel body Vessel body: divided vertically and at right angles to the axis of the stirrup spout into two fields, one side cream engobed and with zoomorphic mixed creature (felid and snake) surrounded by cacti; the other side completely brown (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 22,9 cm
Depth: 13,7 cm
Width: 14 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47999

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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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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