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Application: anthropomorphic defecating figure

Shape: spherical with stand ring, anthropomorphic application, stirrup spout on the back of the figure Colour/technique: grey body, red-brown and cream engobed, painted black and cream (fineline technique) Stirrup spout: cream engobed Vessel body: horizontally divided in two, lower part engobed red-brown, upper part engobed cream-coloured, polymorphic geometric painting (fineline painting, heavily rubbed) Application: squatting and defecating anthropomorphic figure, under the right thigh a bowl with food, upper garment red-brown and cream-coloured, lower body naked and covered with stains (skin disease?) (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: 23 x 12,4 x 19,1 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 32579

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche

who
P. Otto Zembsch (1841-05-31 - 1911-03-02) - Collectors
Ernst Wilhelm Eduard von Knorr (1840-03-08 - 1920-02-17) - Former Possessors

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