Small Bottle with Feline
-700–1
- Medium
- earthenware, resin-based paint
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 7.5 cm (2 15/16 in.); Overall: 10.2 cm (4 in.)
- Genre
- Ceramic
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Peru, South Coast, Paracas (Cavernas) style (700 BCE–1 CE)
About
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.