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Fineline Painting: battle of anthropo-zoomorphic figures

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Shape: spherical with stand ring, stirrup spout on top Colour/technique: pale red body, cream engobed, painted dark brown (fineline technique) Stirrup spout: dark brown engobed Vessel body: two anthropo-zoomorphic mixed creatures in combat (fish and bird), surrounded by animals (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 20,7 cm
Depth: 14,1 cm
Width: 14,3 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 48000

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Trujillo
    who
    Julius van der Zypen
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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