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Fineline Painting: Birds

Shape: spherical bottle, with stand ring, spout on top, handle on the side Colour/technique: cream-coloured engobed, painted red (fineline technique) Spout: white, set off in red on the vessel body, a row of red dots on the spout, red handle Vessel body: horizontally divided in two, upper half engobed in cream colour, alternating circumferential frieze with birds and flowers up to the height of the handle, circumferential frieze with circles below, lower half completely red (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay bottle
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Depth: 13,1 cm
Width: 12,1 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18416

Provenance and sources

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

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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