Paracas Double-Spout Vessel of a feline, Early Paracas, Juan Pablo style, ca. 700-500 B.C.

the round feline's head pulled inwards,  his features minimized into a graphic intense growl with overlapping fangs, tiny pierced nose and diamond eyes, the tubular body incised with feline spots, legs with pelt markings, and tapering tail, the whistling bridge-spout with an avian head on one side, and with extensive remains of resinous pigment in red, maroon and green on the face. 

Alan Lapiner

Acquired from the above before 1970

Alan Lapiner, Pre-Columbian Art of South America, New York, 1976, colorplate 195

The feline face depicted frontally is a trait of the Paracas style, which can be viewed as confronted feline profiles, possibly taken from Chavin influence (Sawyer 1966:76). The two favored animal motifs in Paracas pottery are falcons and felines, the dominant animals of sky and land. See ibid.(fig. 97) for the general type, and Lapiner (1976: fig. 194) for a very similar feline vessel.