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Fineline Painting: Birds

Shape: double-cone shaped bottle, spout with handle at the top Colour/technique: red body, cream engobed, painted red-brown (fineline technique) Spout: white, red handle Vessel body: horizontally divided into two fields with a red line, upper half cream engobed and birds all around, lower half red body, neck of the vessel set off in red and with white dots (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay bottle
Dimensions
Height: 18,2 cm
Depth: 15,6 cm
Width: 12,8 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 4048
Related object(s)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Trujillo
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    José Mariano Macedo (1823 - 1894) - 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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