An Early Paracas polychrome double-headed effigy vessel and bowl, Ocucaje, ca. 700-500 B.C.

comprising the curving bridge-spout vessel with a feline head of Chavinoid style at each end, each elongated face showing crossed fangs, lunate eyes, projecting upturned nose and small ears, the incised and painted pelt with three rows of double-circles with zigzag edge, in pale green, red, cream and brown on the deep brown ceramic; and a low blackware bowl with an incised and resin painted rim band of step motifs framing a guilloche segment, in cream, tan and red.  

Mr. and Mrs. John Tishman, New York, acquired before 1972

New York, The Museum of Primitive Art, Precolumbian Art in New York, Selections from Private Collections, September 12-November 9, 1969, fig. 228, for the effigy vessel

The combination of a serpent shape with feline attributes is a Chavin trait carried into the Paracas style.  See Sawyer (1966: figs. 106 and 107),  for examples in the Nathan Cummings collection, showing similar Chavinoid feline traits.