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Relief: Lizards

Shape: slightly lenticular vase with conical neck Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream engobed, cream and black painted, relief Vessel neck: red-brown engobed, the upper rim with surrounding frieze polymorphically geometrically painted (waves) Vessel body: horizontally divided in two, lower part engobed in cream colour, upper part engobed in red-brown and each with zoomorphic relief (pairs of lizards) on the flat side; polymorphic geometric painting between them (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vase
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 26,4 x 20,1 x 18,3 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47981

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Trujillo [Stadt]
who
Julius van der Zypen
Moche

who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors

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