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Double vessel with handle

Two spherical vessels, painted red and white, connected at the bottom and and connected by a (broken) bracket at the top. One The upper part of one vessel is designed as a parrot's head with an open beak, the belly of which is surrounded by a band with a stepped pattern with circles painted in white. The other vessel has an elongated spout at the top and is painted with a white dot and stripe pattern. painted with a white dot and stripe pattern. See also RJM 66899.

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Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
vessels (containers)
Dimensions
170 x 226 x 116 mm
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 31799
Other number(s)
RJM 1914/17

Provenance and sources

when
between 450-750
Period/Style
Early Intermediate Period - Middle Horizon; Moche IV (style)
where
Peru
America -> South America -> Peru -> Coast (north) -> Chimbote (place)

when
1907
who
Julius van der Zypen (1842 - 1907) - Funders

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