ClassificationsArt of the Americas
Pedestal Plate with Fantastical Animal Motif
Place CreatedPanama, North America
CultureConte
PeriodPeriod VIA
Date600-800 CE
MediumCeramic
Credit LineGift of William C. and Carol W. Thibadeau
Dimensions4 3/4 x 10 7/8 in. (12.1 x 27.7 cm)
Object number1990.011.296
Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - September 1994Intricate Explorations: Cocle Ceramics from the Permanent Collection, Michael C. Carlos Museum, September 24 - December 18, 1994
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 13, 2002 - June 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 - February 6, 2017
Published ReferencesMary W. Helms, Creations of the Rainbow Serpent: Polychrome Ceramic Designs from Ancient Panama (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995).
Karen M. O'Day, "Preserved Permeability: A Study of the Formal Rule System of the Conte and Macarcas Styles of Polychrome Ceramics from the Central Region of Ancient Panama." (MA thesis, Emory University, 1996), plate 2.
Rebecca 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), 164, figure 390.
Rebecca Stone, The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011), 71, figure 4.1.
ProvenanceEx coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, by September 1982 or purchased November 1983.
Status
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- Art of the Americas
ca. 600-900 CE
500-900 CE
600-700 CE
600-800 CE
1300-1520 CE
800-1000 CE
800-1000 CE
800-1000 CE
ca. 1000 CE
1000-1300 CE
800-1000 CE