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Toad/Frog

Shape: zoomorphic, frog/toad, spout and handle on the back Colour/technique: dark red body, painted white Spout and handle: white VS: closed mouth, outlined in white, air sac indicated as a circle in the neck area, white band with fruit underneath, eyes and nose highlighted in half relief, eyes outlined in white, two white lines on the bridge of the nose, volute in relief on each side of the head at eye level, RS: cassava plant in relief, painted in white, hind legs white on the sides and on the back: white field fruit (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 16,7 x 10,7 x 14,5 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18198

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Moche

who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors

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