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

ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Tripod Vessel with Anthropomorphic Crocodiles

Place CreatedCosta Rica, North America

CultureLa Selva-Curridabat

PeriodPeriod IV - Period V

Date400-700 CE

MediumCeramic

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

Dimensions8 13/16 x 7 1/16 in. (22.4 x 18 cm)

Object number1991.004.083

Exhibition HistoryPre-Columbian Art from the Collections of Paul A. Clifford and William C. Thibadeau, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, February 13 - April 4, 1971
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, October 8, 2012 - January 5, 2013
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 9, 2013 - March 18, 2019
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, July 2, 2019 - May 10, 2022
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, August 1, 2022 - 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), 123, figure 261.

ProvenanceEx coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, presumably by 1971.

Status

On view

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