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Fineline painting: plants and birds; application: toad/frog

Shape: spherical with stand ring, application of two frogs, stirrup spout on top, spout broken off Colour/technique: cream engobed, painted red-brown (fineline technique) Stirrup spout: cream engobed, painted with zoomorphic heads Vessel body: surrounding frieze with birds and plants Application: in the upper part of the vessel two frogs (sitting in a painted flower) (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 20,9 cm
Depth: 14,5 cm
Width: 14,7 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18410

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Moche
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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