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    "localId": "126267",
    "label": "Vessel with Feline",
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}

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    "id": "126267",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Vessel with Feline",
    "description": "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 color 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.",
    "date": "700 BCE–1 CE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.477",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.477/1948.477_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.477/1948.477_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.477/1948.477_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 14.2 cm (5 9/16 in.); Overall: 11.3 cm (4 7/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Peru, South Coast, Paracas (Cavernas) style (700 BCE–1 CE)"
    ],
    "accession": "1948.477"
}

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    "tec": "earthenware, resin-based paint",
    "tombstone": "Vessel with Feline, 700 BCE–1 CE. Peru, South Coast, Paracas (Cavernas) style (700 BCE–1 CE). Earthenware, resin-based paint; diameter: 14.2 cm (5 9/16 in.); overall: 11.3 cm (4 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of John Wise, 1948.477",
    "collection": "AA - Andes",
    "didYouKnow": "Small, wild, reclusive felines, pampas cats live on the margins of agricultural fields, where they prey on rodents and other pests that are a farmer’s bane",
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.477",
    "creditline": "Gift of John Wise",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:31:54.553000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.477/1948.477_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 126267,
    "dept": "Art of the Americas",
    "coll": "AA - Andes",
    "med": "earthenware, resin-based paint",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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