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Toad/Frog

Shape: zoomorphic, frog/toad, conical spout on the back Colour/technique: dark red body, painted white VS: closed mouth, white rim and strongly plastically accentuated, the white-rimmed eyes and the nose half plastically accentuated, two white lines on the bridge of the nose, white circle above in the forehead area, front legs half plastically moulded and with two white lines, reddish, half plastically and white painted volutes on each side of the head at eye level, stylised manioc tubers underneath, air sac indicated as a white semicircle in the neck area, RS: spout set off with a white line, the end of the body with reliefs of tubers, painted white (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Height: 20,3 cm
Depth: 22,3 cm
Width: 15,2 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18178

Provenance and sources

Production
when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche
Collecting
who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors
Assignment to a curated holding:
American Archaeology

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