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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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."<br><br>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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wall description: 
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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