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Toad/Frog

Form: zoomorphic, frog/toad with ears, conical spout on the back Colour/technique: red body, painted white VS: closed mouth, strongly plastically emphasised and vertical lines on it, air sac indicated as a white circle in the neck area - white rhombus underneath, the white-rimmed eyes, the ears and the nose semi plastically emphasised, white volute on each side of the head at eye level RS: vessel body painted with white rings Special: ears (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Figure vessel
Dimensions
Height: 15,4 cm
Depth: 19,3 cm
Width: 12,9 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18185

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Moche
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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