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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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Data Provider
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt

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

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