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Anthropo-zoomorphic figure; Fineline Painting: polymorphic geometric

Form: zoomorphic, snail with anthropo-zoomorphic head, stirrup spout on the back Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream engobed; cream, black and red-brown painted (fineline technique) Stirrup spout: red-brown engobed Vessel body: cream-coloured engobed, polymorphically geometrically painted (fineline technique), the head with feline teeth, zoomorphic ear decoration (snake heads) and zoomorphic head decoration/covering, two animals in arms (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 22,1 cm
Width: 18,9 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 4658
Related object(s)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Gran Chimú
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    José Mariano Macedo (1823 - 1894) - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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