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Fineline painting: polymorphic geometric

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Form: anthropomorphic head, stirrup spout above the crown Colour/technique: red body, painted white and red and polished Stirrup spout: white VS: face painted red on the sides, eyes and ear ornaments white, white headdress on top painted red-brown (polymorphic geometric), RS: white, field in the middle painted in fineline technique Special (1): ear ornaments Special (2): painting in fineline technique (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 28 cm
Depth: 18,6 cm
Width: 17,3 cm
Weight: 0,76 kg
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17918

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Moche
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Donation 1900
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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