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Bird group

Form: zoomorphic, four birds, spout on the back (broken off) Colour/technique: red body, white and brown engobed, painted white and dark brown, plumage partially indicated with incised decoration Vessel body: white and brown engobed, heads of the pair of birds sitting next to each other dark brown with white beaks, body white, two other bird bodies brown (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Height: 17,5 cm
Depth: 14,9 cm
Width: 14,7 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 4707
Related object(s)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Casma
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    José Mariano Macedo (1823 - 1894) - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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