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Toad/Frog

Form: zoomorphic, frog/toad, stirrup spout on the back Colour/technique: light red body, white and orange engobed and polished Stirrups: dark reddish brown and polished VS: closed mouth, orange, strongly moulded, eyes and nose strongly accentuated in relief, eyes outlined in white, tip of nose with reddish brown stripe, legs slightly bulging and orange, a volute behind the eyes in relief RS: below the stirrup in relief a stem of a cassava plant with leaf attachments, cassava tubers in relief on the rear body of the vessel (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 22,9 cm
Depth: 20,2 cm
Width: 13 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18195

Provenance and sources

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

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