猫香船 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	猫香船
品名（英）	Feline Incense Vessel
入馆年号	1978年，1978.412.100
策展部门	迈克尔·洛克菲勒之翼（The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing）
创作者
创作年份	公元 500 - 公元 900
创作地区	玻利维亚或秘鲁（Bolivia or Peru）
分类	陶瓷容器（Ceramics-Containers）
尺寸	高 10 1/8 × 宽 8 1/4 × 深 12 英寸 (25.7 × 21 × 30.5 厘米)
介绍（中）	蒂瓦纳库高地的陶瓷器皿坚固而干净，采用严肃的形状方法，使它们与北部沿海地区的雕塑陶瓷传统区分开来。表面颜色也很克制，在有限的色调范围内以大地色调为主。这种喇叭侧容器是一种典型但独特的蒂瓦纳库类型。它的一侧有一个大猫头，另一侧有一个粗壮的直立尾巴。头部被一个大法兰包围，其上出现设计的残余。有翼型猫科动物在船的两侧。这些大脚猫充斥着分配给它们的空间。它们的眼睛是圆的，分成两半，一半是白色的，另一半是黑色的，这种风格被广泛用于猫科动物的图像。像这样的容器通常代表大型猫科动物或美洲驼。许多是根据动物本身的形状建模的，动物的身体形成容器容器。建模和抽象容器的内部经常被发现变黑和乌烟瘴气。这导致了它们在前哥伦布时期是香炉的结论。使用时，烟雾会来自这个例子的猫头张开的嘴巴，它的内部确实有烟灰变黑。
介绍（英）	The ceramic vessels of highland Tiwanaku are sturdy and clean lined, with a no-nonsense approach to shape that sets them apart from the sculptural ceramic traditions of the coastal regions to the north. Surface color too is restrained, with a pre-dominance of earth tones in a limited range of hue. This flaring-side vessel is a typical, but distinctive, Tiwanaku type. It has a large feline head on one side and a stumpy, erect tail on the other. The head is surrounded by a large flange on which remnants of a design appear. Winged profile felines are on each side of the vessel. These big-footed cats abundantly fill the space allotted to them. Their eyes are round and divided in half with one half white and the other black, a stylization that was widely used on feline images. Vessels such as these usually represent either large cats or llamas. A number are modeled on the shape of the animal itself, with the animal's body forming the vessel container. The insides of both modeled and abstract vessels are often found blackened and sooty. This has lead to the conclusion that they were censers in Precolumbian times. When in use, smoke would have come from the open mouth of the feline head of this example, which does have a soot-blackened interior.