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Fineline painting: polymorphic geometric

Shape: double cone-shaped with stand ring, stirrup spout at the top Colour/technique: red-brown and cream engobed, painted red-brown (fineline technique) Stirrup spout: cream engobed, painted with zoomorphic heads Vessel body: upper half of the vessel divided horizontally into two parts, upper part with a surrounding band of alternating birds and flowers, stylised waves in the lower part, lower half of the vessel completely red-brown, stand ring white (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 26,3 cm
Width: 15,3 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 48155

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Julius van der Zypen
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - 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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