id: 126267
accession number: 1948.477
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.477
updated: 2022-04-28 09:00:14.241000
Vessel with Feline, 700 BC-AD 1. Peru, South Coast, Paracas (Cavernas) style (700 BC-AD 1). Earthenware, resin-based paint; diameter: 14.2 cm (5 9/16 in.); overall: 11.3 cm (4 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of John Wise 1948.477
title: Vessel with Feline
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creation date: 700 BC-AD 1
creation date earliest: -700
creation date latest: 1
current location: 232 Andean
creditline: Gift of John Wise
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culture: Peru, South Coast, Paracas (Cavernas) style (700 BC-AD 1)
technique: earthenware, resin-based paint
department: Art of the Americas
collection: AA - Andes
type: Ceramic
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CREATORS
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measurements: Diameter: 14.2 cm (5 9/16 in.); Overall: 11.3 cm (4 7/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art: March 17-April 10 1949. "Art, A Means to World Understanding."
Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 23-April 3, 1966. "Treasures of Peruvian Gold."
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PROVENANCE
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fun fact:
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 bane
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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.
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