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Ceramic ploychrome tripod incensario incense burner
Object Number 993-24-20/27392
Display Title Ceramic ploychrome tripod incensario incense burner
Descriptions
Object Description Ceramic polychrome tripod incensario (incense burner) in brown, blue,white; encirled by abstract standing figures with arms raised & touching . the figures standing around represent "souls".
Department Ethnographic
Date 1900-1993
Culture
  • Modern
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Mexico / Oaxaca / <County> / Ocotlan de Morelos
Materials Ceramic
Dimensions Overall: 9 x 7 cm (3 9/16 x 2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Alice B. Melvin, in celebration of donor's father and mother, Professor A. Gordon Melvin and Lorna Strong Melvin, donor's sister, Mary Melvin Petronella, family friend, Luis Hererra Garcia, friend, Richard Paul Baydin, and donor's cats, Miss Amiga, Sir Minky, and Pyewacket
Provenance
Collector Alice B. Melvin (August 16, 1993)
Donor Alice B. Melvin (August 16, 1993)

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