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Fineline painting: birds and plants; application: toad/frog

Shape: lentil-shaped with stand ring, stirrup spout on the side, conical top on the vessel body, zoomorphic application Colour/technique: cream and red-brown engobed, painted white (fineline technique), stirrup spout: cream engobed Vessel body: horizontally divided into two parts, upper part engobed red-brown, depiction of an aquatic habitat (waterfowl and reeds); lower part completely engobed in cream colour, base ring red-brown Application: toad/frog on conical top and on the body of the vessel (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 21,7 cm
Depth: 17,8 cm
Width: 10,8 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 4665
Related object(s)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    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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