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Fineline Painting: Birds

Shape: spherical bottle, spout at the top, handle on the side Colour/technique: light red body, cream engobed, painted red and dark brown (fineline technique) Spout: white, red dots around the spout, red handle Vessel body: horizontally divided into four parts, upper part with surrounding band of alternating birds and flowers, red dots placed next to each other underneath, plants underneath with brown paint (heavily rubbed off), lowest part of vessel light red body (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay bottle
Dimensions
Height: 26,6 cm
Depth: 18,4 cm
Width: 17 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 48156

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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