Cleveland Museum of Art

Feline Vessel

Date: 200–850 CE
Medium: ceramic
Culture: Central Andes, North Coast, Moche people
Department: Art of the Americas
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art

This darkware vessel is early Moche and demonstrates the transition from earlier North Coast cultures, which used smudge firing and post-fire pigmentation, to Moche times, which saw the adoption of new, higher-oxygen firing technologies and the use of slips applied before firing. The Moche were known for their fine animal representations.

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