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Birds in the mountains

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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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Cataloguing data

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

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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