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Fineline painting: plants and birds

Shape: spherical bottle with stand ring, spout on top, handle broken off Colour/technique: light red body, red and cream engobed, painted red-brown (fineline technique) Spout: white with red dots Vessel body: horizontally divided into two fields, upper field cream engobed, surrounding frieze of birds and plants, lower field completely red (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay bottle
Dimensions
Height: 21,8 cm
Depth: 12,3 cm
Width: 12,2 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 4643
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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