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Fineline painting: anthropomorphic figure hunting ducks

Shape: spherical, stirrup spout at the top Colour/technique: red-brown and cream engobed, painted red-brown (fineline technique) Stirrup spout: red-brown and white engobed, alternating with the colour of the vessel body Vessel body: divided vertically and at right angles to the axis of the stirrup spout into two fields, one side with an anthropo-zoomorphic hybrid creature killing a bird; other side completely red-brown (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 25,6 cm
Depth: 14,1 cm
Width: 14 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47997

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Trujillo
    who
    Julius van der Zypen
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - 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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