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Architectural model

Form: rectangular vessel body with house-like architectural model, mountain and anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures, stirrup spout on top Colour/technique: red body, cream engobed, painted red-brown, polished Stirrup spout: cream engobed Vessel body: cream engobed, painted with wavy lines as a surrounding frieze Application: House-like architectural model engobed in cream colour, in front of it a water basin with a drain (engobed in cream colour); next to it a mountain with birds and two sculpted anthropomorphic figures In particular: an anthropomorphic figure sits in the house, below it a second and a third at the edge of the water basin; there several zoomorphic figures (toad/frog) (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 16,3 cm
Depth: 15,6 cm
Width: 13,3 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18285

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Moche
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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