Supernatural Feline

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CultureMoche

Titles

Supernatural Feline

Date100–800 AD

PlacePeru

MediumEarthenware with slip

DimensionsOverall: 6 5/8 × 4 7/16 × 9 1/2 in. (16.8 × 11.3 × 24.2 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Lee Godfrey in honor of his grandchildren, Isabella and Thomas Lee Summers at "One Great Night in November, 2009"

Object number2009.1495

Current Location

The Caroline Wiess Law Building

209M Jones Galleries

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas

Object Type

CERAMICS

ProvenancePrivate collection, Switzerland, 1940s; Private collection, New York; [The Merrin Gallery, Inc., New York, until 2009]; purchased by MFAH, 2009.
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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