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Fineline painting: birds; application: toad/frog

Shape: lenticular bottle, flattened at the base and with indicated feet, zoomorphic application, spout at the top, handle on the side (broken off) Colour/technique: light red body, cream-coloured engobed, painted red-brown (fineline technique) Spout: white, a row of red dots on the spout Vessel body: horizontally divided in two, upper half engobed in cream colour, on the shoulder of the vessel all around and following each other: the figurative application, bird, flower; lower half light red body application: toad/frog with back drawing and indicated skin sack on the neck (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay bottle
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 21,1 x 14,1 x 11,7 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18415

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche

who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors

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