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Fineline painting: crabs/crayfish

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Shape: spherical, stirrup spout at the top Colour/technique: cream engobed, painted red-brown (fineline technique) Stirrup spout: cream engobed Vessel body: divided vertically along the axis of the stirrup spout into two fields, one crab in each field, one crab with a completely red-brown back and the other crab with a red-brown-white back (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 20 cm
Depth: 14 cm
Width: 13,6 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 587

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    who
    Moche
  • Collecting
    who
    Jacob Samuel Renner - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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