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Fineline painting: polymorphic geometric

Form: anthropomorphic head, stirrup spout above the crown Colour/technique: red body, white, black and red painted and polished, stirrup spout white VS: face red and polished with facial tattooing/painting in the chin area and on the temples, eyes and ear ornaments white, white headdress on top red-brown painting (polymorphic geometric) RS: white, field in the centre painted in fineline technique Special: ear ornaments, facial tattooing/painting Special: painting in fineline technique (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Weight: 0,8 kg
Height: 29,2 cm
Depth: 19,7 cm
Width: 17,2 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17919

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Moche
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Donation 1900
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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