Feline Vessel (200–850 CE): Art, History and Details
Feline Vessel at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 200–850 CE, ceramic. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Feline Vessel (200–850 CE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
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.
Object facts
- Title: Feline Vessel
- Date: 200–850 CE
- Culture: Central Andes, North Coast, Moche people
- Type: Ceramic
- Technique: ceramic
- Dimensions: Overall: 17 x 14 x 19.8 cm (6 11/16 x 5 1/2 x 7 13/16 in.)
- Collection: AA - Andes
- Department: Art of the Americas
- Accession number: 2010.4
A detail from the museum
The Moche were known for their fine animal representations.
Collection credit
John L. Severance Fund
View the collection record
See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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