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Fineline painting: birds, flowers and polymorphic geometric

Shape: spherical bottle with standing ring Colour/technique: cream engobed, painted red-brown (fineline technique) Vessel body: cream primed, horizontally divided into two parts, upper part painted with surrounding frieze (alternating birds and flowers); lower part painted polymorphically geometric (frieze with stylised waves/spirals ending in zoomorphic heads) (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay bottle
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 21,6 x 12,3 x 14,7 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 48153

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Chimbote
who
Julius van der Zypen
Moche

who
Wilhelm Gretzer (1847 - 1926) - Collectors

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