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Fineline painting: Lizards

Shape: spherical bottle, spout on top, handle on the side Colour/technique: cream engobed, painted brown (fineline technique, partially rubbed off) Spout and handle: white, handle with brown stripes Vessel body: horizontally divided into two parts, upper half vertically divided into four parts, in the fields alternating two lizards and two bird heads, lower half completely white (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay bottle
Dimensions
Height: 19 cm
Depth: 14,7 cm
Width: 15,2 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47989

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Trujillo
    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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