The Paracas often decorated their ceramics with geometricized representations of the native Pampas cat, a small, reclusive, wild feline that lives on the margins of agricultural fields, where it preys on the rodents and other pests that are a farmer’s bane. Thus, the ancients seem to have linked it to nature’s fertility and, by extension, human prosperity and continuity.

Princeton University Art Museum (January 2015-Late 2020).

Margrith Brenner, Zurich, Switzerland, sold to Private Collector

Private Collector, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Square Bowl with Pampas Cats

Central Andes, South Coast, Paracas

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