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

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche

who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors

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