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Fineline painting: polymorphic geometric

Shape: spherical, stirrup spout at the top Colour/technique: cream engobed, painted red-brown (fineline technique) Stirrup spout: with decoration as on the body of the vessel Body of the vessel: horizontally divided into four parts, with rectangles delineated in each part, in which two different forms of stylised zoomorphic heads are set, alternating vertically and horizontally (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 32 x 17 x 15,4 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47998

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Trujillo [Stadt]
who
Julius van der Zypen
Moche

who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors

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