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Fineline painting: Animal in the crescent moon

Shape: spherical with stand ring, stirrup spout on top, spout broken off Colour/technique: cream-coloured engobed, painted red-brown (fineline technique) Stirrup spout: cream-coloured engobed Vessel body: on each side animal in reclining crescent moon, in between a star (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 23,1 cm
Depth: 16,1 cm
Width: 16 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 48161

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Julius van der Zypen
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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