id: 126799 accession number: 1949.195 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.195 updated: 2022-01-04 15:38:53.512000 Small Bottle with Feline, 700 BC-1. Peru, South Coast, Paracas (Cavernas) style (700 BC-AD 1). Earthenware, resin-based paint; diameter: 7.5 cm (2 15/16 in.); overall: 10.2 cm (4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of John Wise 1949.195 title: Small Bottle with Feline title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 700 BC-1 creation date earliest: -700 creation date latest: 1 current location: creditline: Gift of John Wise copyright: --- 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 find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Diameter: 7.5 cm (2 15/16 in.); Overall: 10.2 cm (4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 23-April 3, 1966. "Treasures of Peruvian Gold." --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 347 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n66 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.195/1949.195_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.195/1949.195_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.195/1949.195_full.tif