Nasca
Bottle with composite feline and disembodied heads
Nasca, 2000
Physical Qualities
Earthenware, polychrome, 6 5/16 × 7 1/16 in. (16 × 18 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Lena Picker
Object Number
1969.12.1
Polychrome globular bottle with short spout. Shows masked feline with wings extending tongue into the mouth of an upturned, disembodied head. Disembodied head with extended tresses also marks spout area.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Myths of Ancient Peru," October 7- 30, 1969.
"Myths of Ancient Peru," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1969, cat. no. 48.
