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Application: Birth scene with two midwives

Shape: globular, anthropomorphic application (birth scene), stirrup spout on the back of the figures (spout broken off) Colour/technique: red body, red-brown and cream engobed, polished Stirrup spout: red-brown engobed Vessel body: horizontally divided in two, lower part engobed red-brown, upper part engobed cream-coloured Application: a woman giving birth, sitting on a stool and held in the back by a woman, while the midwife squatting in front of the woman giving birth receives the child (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 22,1 x 14,3 x 21,7 cm
Gewicht: 0,97 kg
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47912

Provenance and sources

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

who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors

Description
Donation from Gretzer 1907

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