id:			441847
accession number:	2021.130
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.130
updated:		2023-05-26 11:03:22.865000

Square Bowl with Pampas Cats, 500–400 BC. Central Andes, South Coast, Paracas people. Ceramic, post-fire paint; overall: 9 x 18 x 17.5 cm (3 9/16 x 7 1/16 x 6 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, J.H. Wade Trust Fund 2021.130

title:				Square Bowl with Pampas Cats
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creation date:			500–400 BC
creation date earliest:		-500
creation date latest:		-400
current location:		232 Andean
creditline:			J.H. Wade Trust Fund
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culture:	Central Andes, South Coast, Paracas people
technique:	Ceramic, post-fire paint
department:	Art of the Americas
collection:	AA - Andes
type:		Ceramic
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measurements: Overall: 9 x 18 x 17.5 cm (3 9/16 x 7 1/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Princeton University Art Museum (January 2015-Late 2020).

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PROVENANCE

	Margrith Brenner, Zurich, Switzerland, sold to Private Collector
	date: Before Late 1960s-1994
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	Private Collector, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1994-2021
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2021-
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fun fact:
The animal shown on this bowl is the Pampas cat, a small, wild feline.

digital description:
The Paracas often decorated their ceramics with geometricized representations of the native Pampas cat, a small, reclusive, wild feline that lives on the margins of agricultural fields, where it preys on the rodents and other pests that are a farmer’s bane. Thus, the ancients seem to have linked it to nature’s fertility and, by extension, human prosperity and continuity.

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