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Application: sexual intercourse scene (coitus analis) and child

Form: rectangular, anthropomorphic application (coitus scene), stirrup spout on the back of the upper figure (spout broken off) Colour/technique: red and grey body, red-brown engobed, cream painted Stirrup spout: red-brown engobed Vessel body: red-brown engobed, circumferential band of polymorphic geometric painting on the upper rim, appliqué on the top Appliqué: two figures lying sideways one behind the other in cohabitation, a reclining child next to the figure in front (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 16,5 cm
Depth: 19,5 cm
Width: 12,8 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47916

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Trujillo
    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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