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Mountains; Fineline Painting: Plants and animals

Shape: oval with eight conical applications (mountain peaks) as well as zoomorphic and anthropomorphic applications, stirrup spout on the side Colour/technique: cream engobed, painted light brown, (fineline technique) Vessel body: the tips of the mountain peaks are light brown, depiction of animals and plants between the mountain peaks, a zoomorphic figure sitting on a pedestal, two anthropomorphic figures sitting on the highest peak Special: Fineline Painting (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
crock
Dimensions
Height: 15,7 cm
Depth: 17,3 cm
Width: 13,4 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 61647

Provenance and sources

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

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