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Seated anthropo-zoomorphic figure (bird)

Form: anthropo-zoomorphic and phytomorphic, seated figure with bird's head, stirrup spout on the back (spout broken off) Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream engobed, painted red-brown and white, partially polished Stirrup spout: cream engobed Vessel body: head and beak cream engobed with red-brown markings, back of the body designed as a bulb with germ eyes (white) (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 17,2 cm
Depth: 20,6 cm
Width: 13,3 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 48104

Provenance and sources

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

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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