Small Bottle with Feline, 700 BC-1. 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 colour 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.

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Photo credit: © Heritage Images / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: 1, 700, art, bc-ad, cavernas, ceramic, cleveland, coast, earthenware, heritage, museum, paint, paracas, peru, resin-based, south, style, unknown