© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.

ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Pedestal Plate with Crocodile-Bird Motif

Place CreatedPanama, North America

CultureMacaracas

PeriodPeriod VIB

Date800-1000 CE

MediumCeramic

Credit LineGift of William C. and Carol W. Thibadeau

Dimensions6 3/4 x 10 3/8 in. (17.1 x 26.3 cm)

Object number1990.011.292

Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - September 1994
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 13, 2002 - June 2012
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 5.
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), 167, figure 394.

ProvenanceEx coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, by September 1982 or purchased July 1983.

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