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Pair of birds/pair of owls

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Shape: zoomorphic, pair of birds/pair of owls, spout with handle on the back (broken off) Colour/technique: red body, white engobed, painted white Spout: red body Vessel body: the two birds are fabulously alternating: left owl red body with white dots and wings; right owl white with red wings (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Height: 16,9 cm
Depth: 13,3 cm
Width: 13 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 48110

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Julius van der Zypen
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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