Incense Burner with Double-Headed Crocodile Effigy Lid

Place CreatedCosta Rica, North America

CultureGreater Nicoya

PeriodPeriod V - Period VI

Date500-1350 CE

MediumCeramic

Credit LineEx coll. William C. and Carol W. Thibadeau

Dimensions7 x 13 7/16 in. (17.8 x 34.2 cm)

Object number1991.004.382A/B

Exhibition HistorySeeing with New Eyes: Pre-Columbian Art from the Thibadeau Collection, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, March 4 - October 13, 1992
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - 2001
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 13, 2002 - June 6, 2012
'For I am the Black Jaguar': Shamanic Visionary Experience in Ancient American Art, Michael C. Carlos Museum, September 5, 2012 - January 5, 2013
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 9, 2013 - January 9, 2017
Desire and Consumption: The New World in the Age of Shakespeare, Michael C. Carlos Museum, January 14 - April 9, 2017
MCCM Permanent Collection Gallery, April 14, 2017 - Present
Published ReferencesRebecca Stone-Miller, Seeing With New Eyes: Highlights of the Michael C. Carlos Museum Collection of Art of the Ancient Americas (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2002), 90, figure 174ab.
Rebecca Stone, The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011), 73, figure 4.2.

ProvenanceEx coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased April 1973.

Status

On view

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