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Bird and fruit

Form: phytomorphic and zoomorphic, bird's head on a fruit, stirrup spout on the back of the head Colour/technique: pale red body, white and brown engobed, red-brown painted Stirrup spout: red-brown Vessel body: partially broken, white engobed (heavily abraded), red-brown stripes as plumage markings (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 22,6 cm
Depth: 23,5 cm
Width: 11,9 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 11927

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    E.W. Middendorf - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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