The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 18, 2024
Vessel with Feline
700 BCE–1 CE
(Cavernas) style (700 BCE–1 CE)
Diameter: 14.2 cm (5 9/16 in.); Overall: 11.3 cm (4 7/16 in.)
Gift of John Wise 1948.477
Location: 232 Andean
Did You Know?
Small, wild, reclusive felines, pampas cats live on the margins of agricultural fields, where they prey on rodents and other pests that are a farmer’s baneDescription
Little is known of the meaning of the beautifully abstracted felines so often incised on Paracas ceramics. The designs achieve much of their complexity through color applied as resin-based paint after the vessel was fired in a smoky atmosphere that blackened its surface. Two spouts joined by a bridge appear on many fine South Coast ceramics. The form probably had meaning, now lost.- Treasures of Peruvian Gold. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 23-April 3, 1966).Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 23-April 3, 1966. "Treasures of Peruvian Gold."Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art: March 17-April 10 1949. "Art, A Means to World Understanding."
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1948.477