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Fineline painting: polymorphic geometric

Form: anthropomorphic head, stirrup spout on top of skull Colour/technique: red body, white engobed and painted red-brown, polished, stirrup spout: white VS: face painted red and red-brown - mouth parts omitted, eyes white, headdress white and red-brown, a large cylinder protruding above the forehead, ear decoration RS: Headdress polymorphically painted geometrically (fineline technique) Especially (1): Ear jewellery Especially (2): Headdress polymorphically painted geometrically (fineline technique) (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Portrait head with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Gewicht: 0,79 kg
Objektmaß: 27,6 x 14,4 x 18,9 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 17579

Provenance and sources

when
Moche 0 - 600
where
Peru
Trujillo
who
Moche

who
Baessler, Arthur - Collectors

Description
Donation 1900

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