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Fineline painting: flies and fish

Shape: spherical, stirrup spout at the top (spout broken off) Colour/technique: red-brown and cream engobed, painted red-brown (fineline technique) Stirrup spout: one half cream engobed and painted red-brown: Flies; the other half red-brown; alternating with the colour of the vessel body Vessel body: vertically rectangular to the axis of the stirrup spout divided into two fields, one field cream-coloured engobed and painted with waves, stylised fish and flies, the other field completely red-brown Special: the red half of the stirrup spout alternates with the cream-coloured engobed vessel half (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 21,3 cm
Width: 14,1 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 3711
Related object(s)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Trujillo
    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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