Cleveland Museum of Art
Vessel with Feline
- Date
- 700 BCE–1 CE
- Medium
- earthenware, resin-based paint
- Culture
- Peru, South Coast, Paracas (Cavernas) style (700 BCE–1 CE)
- Department
- Art of the Americas
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
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. 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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