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Toad/Frog

Form: zoomorphic, frog/toad, conical spout on the back Colour/technique: reddish body, red-brown and white engobed (heavily damaged), painted white VS: closed mouth in white, above it a rectangular row of white lines (9), eyes and nose highlighted in semi-plastic form, nose opening with three and bridge of nose with four white lines), air sac indicated as a white circle in the neck area, front legs moulded in semi-plastic form, semi-plastic and white painted volutes on each side of the head at eye level RS: funnel-shaped vessel opening on the back, few white circles, area moulded in semi-plastic form on the rear body (possibly 5 bulbous fruits), hind legs slightly raised and with two white lines on the right (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Height: 15,4 cm
Depth: 18,4 cm
Width: 12,1 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 12983

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    I.M. Bolivar - Collectors
    Carl Plock - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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