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Fork-necked vessel with wave motif

The fork-necked vessel is engobed in a cream colour and painted with red stripes, circles and abstract shapes. The pattern running around the belly depicts stylised waves. A comparable vessel from Chimbote in the Baessler Collection can be found in the Ethnological Museum Ethnological Museum Berlin (SMB, inv. no. V A 18426).

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
vessels (containers)
Dimensions
286 mm
Material/Technique
Ceramics
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 31792
Other number(s)
RJM 1914/17 (Convolute number)

Provenance and sources

Production
when
650-800/850
Period/Style
Early Intermediate Period - Middle Horizon; Moche V (style)
where
Peru
America -> South America -> Peru -> Coast (north) -> Chimbote (place)
Assignment to a curated holding:
America
Change of physical control or legal title:
Not clarified
Change of physical control or legal title:
Donation
when
1907
who
Julius van der Zypen (1842 - 1907) - Funders
Change of physical control or legal title:
Purchase
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