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Toad/Frog

Form: zoomorphic, frog/toad, stirrup spout on the back Colour/technique: cream and red-brown engobed, polished Stirrup spout: cream VS: half-open mouth with rows of teeth, air sac indicated as a circle in the neck area, front legs semi-plastic and red-brown, volutes in relief on each side of the head at eye level, white belly RS: cassava plant in relief; hind legs reddish brown and white left side of the body: three shrubs in white in semi-plastic form right side of the body: one shrub in white in semi-plastic form Especially: almost identical to VA 4698 (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 23,1 cm
Depth: 19,2 cm
Width: 12,8 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18193

Provenance and sources

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

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