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Application: Bird

Shape: spherical, zoomorphic application (bird/owl), spout on the back of the figure Colour/technique: red-brown body, red-brown and cream-coloured engobed Spout: cream-coloured engobed, handle red-brown body Vessel body: horizontally divided into two parts, lower part red-brown body, upper part cream-coloured engobed Application: owl with a lizard in its fangs, plumage of the owl with cream-coloured dots (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
crock
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Depth: 15,4 cm
Width: 13,8 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 47952

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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