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

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche

who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors

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