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Toad/Frog

Form: zoomorphic, frog/toad, conical spout on the back Colour/technique: dark red body, painted white VS: closed mouth, outlined in white and strongly plastically accentuated, neck white, eyes and nose semi-plastically accentuated and outlined in white, front legs slightly bulging and with six white lines on top, white volutes on each side of the head at eye level RS: at the end of the body reliefs of white painted tuberous fruits, five white cassava tubers around the neck of the vessel left and right side of the body: maize plant (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Height: 18,4 cm
Depth: 17,4 cm
Width: 14,3 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18180

Provenance and sources

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

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