Feline Deity Head Vessel

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Feline Deity Head Vessel

Date900–200 BC

PlacePeru

MediumEarthenware with slip

DimensionsOverall: 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm)

Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.

Object number2010.287

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection

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Provenance(Lot #141 in Arte Primitivo's Fine Pre-Columbian and Tribal Art Auction, November 9, 2005. Auction #33);
Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Collection, Houston;
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2010, 2010.287

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