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Toad/Frog

Form: zoomorphic, frog/toad with ears, conical spout on the back Colour/technique: reddish body, red and white engobed and painted, VS: closed and strongly protruding mouth, white, with red stripes (teeth?), red eyes outlined in white, three white lines on the bridge of the nose, reddish, semi-plastic and white painted volutes on each side of the head at eye level RS: white on top of the back, white bulbous fruits in relief at the end of the body left and right side of the body: white corn cobs in relief Especially: ears (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Height: 20,1 cm
Depth: 26 cm
Width: 18,6 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18175

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Moche
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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