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Fineline painting: polymorphic geometric

Shape: spherical bottle, spout with handle at the top Colour/technique: light red body, cream engobed, painted red-brown (fineline technique) Spout and handle: cream engobed Vessel body: horizontally divided into two fields, upper field cream engobed, surrounding frieze with stylised serpents, spirally curled, lower field light red body (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay bottle
Dimensions
Height: 20,4 cm
Depth: 13,6 cm
Width: 12,9 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 4189
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Provenance and sources

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

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