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Application: anthropomorphic head; fineline painting: arms and outer garment

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Shape: spherical vase with stand ring, neck designed as an anthropomorphic head, spout on the back Colour/technique: grey-red and red body, white engobed, head painted white, body painted red-brown in fineline technique Spout: red body, front with anthropomorphic face with nose ornament, ear ornament, head ornament/covering Vessel body: horizontally divided into two parts, upper part engobed white, arms and outer garment painted on top, lower part grey-red body Special: fineline painting (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel made of clay
Dimensions
Height: 22,2 cm
Depth: 15,4 cm
Width: 13,3 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 2719

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Trujillo
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Martin Berendsohn - 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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