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Birds in the mountains

Form: conical base with stand ring, the body of the vessel depicts four mountain peaks, spout broken off Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and grey-black engobed, painted black (heavily rubbed off) Body of the vessel: zoomorphic painting (birds) on the grey-black engobed areas (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 17,4 x 19,5 x 13,2 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47963

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Trujillo [Stadt]
who
Julius van der Zypen
Moche

who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors

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