Reclining Feline Vessel

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CultureMoche

Titles

Reclining Feline Vessel

Date100–300 AD

PlacePeru

MediumEarthenware with slip

Dimensions7 1/2 × 8 5/8 × 5 5/8 in. (19.1 × 21.9 × 14.3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.

Object number2005.977

Non exposé

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection

Object Type

SCULPTURE

Provenance[Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, by 1969]; Private collection, Indiana; Robert Huber and Marianne Huber, Dixon, Illinois; [The Merrin Gallery, New York, 2005]; purchased by MFAH, 2005.
Exhibition History“Fangs, Feathers, and Fins: Sacred Creatures in Ancient American Art,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 15, 2014–March 22, 2015.

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