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Toad/Frog

Shape: zoomorphic, frog/toad, conical spout on the back Colour/technique: dark red body, painted white VS: closed mouth, white, plastically highlighted, air sac indicated as a white circle in the neck area, eyes and nose slightly plastically highlighted, eyes outlined in white, two white lines on the bridge of the nose, front legs white, four white lines under the eyes, RS: five white circles around the base of the spout, hind legs white (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Height: 13,8 cm
Depth: 13,1 cm
Width: 11,2 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18191

Provenance and sources

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

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