**Originally Listed At $550**

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chimu culture, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A hand-built blackware pottery vessel in the form of a seated feline, perhaps representative of a fierce jaguar. The feline-form vessel has a slightly rounded but stable base, a bulbous body with modeled legs and a curled tail in relief, a raised head with puffy jowls and perky ears, an arching handle with a central bifurcation groove, and a conical spout projecting up from the posterior. A petite perforation in the cat's forehead suggests this vessel was perhaps a canteen or a whistling jar. Size: 7.7" L x 3.4" W x 5.9" H (19.6 cm x 8.6 cm x 15 cm)

Provenance: private Chicago, Illinois, USA collection, acquired in 1988

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#153825

Repairs to spout tip, handle, and ears, with resurfacing and overpainting along break lines. Abrasions and minor nicks to base, body, head, handle, and spout, with fading to original black coloration, softening to some raised details, and light encrustations. Light remains of original black pigment throughout.