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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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Cataloguing data

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

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Trujillo
    who
    Julius van der Zypen
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Donation from Gretzer 1907
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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