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Vessel in frog shape

The reddish figurine vessel in the shape of a frog or a toad toad has a short funnel-shaped neck or spout, which is located on the back of the animal. animal's back. The animal, whose eyelids end in a spiral and which is equipped with four fangs, represents a supernatural being. Depictions of supernatural frogs or toads with fangs are rather rare in Moche art. A comparable vessel from the Gretzer Collection from Trujilo can be found in the Ethnological Museum in Berlin (inv. no. V A 47943).

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Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
vessels (containers)
Dimensions
145 x 360 x 135 mm
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 31798
Other number(s)
RJM 1914/17

Provenance and sources

when
between 450-800
Period/Style
Early Intermediate Period - Middle Horizon; Moche IV-V (style)
where
Peru
America -> South America -> Peru -> Coast (north) -> Chimbote (place)

when
1907
who
Julius van der Zypen (1842 - 1907) - Funders

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