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Bird; Fineline Painting: Plumage

Form: Double-bodied vessel, stirrup spout (damaged) Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream engobed, painted red-brown (fineline technique) Spout and handle: red-brown engobed Front vessel: spherical with zoomorphic application (bird's head/parrot), this also a whistling device, beak, eyes and side of head cream-coloured, vessel body designed as bird's plumage rear vessel: spherical, engobed cream-coloured, frieze of red-brown triangles running around the base of the stirrup (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Gewicht: 0,89 kg
Objektmaß: 25 x 22,5 x 12,7 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 62140

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
who
Moche

who
Sigmund Gildemeister - Collectors

Description
Purchase 1925

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