ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Large Female Tripod Figure with Vessel on Back

Place CreatedCosta Rica, North America

CultureGreater Nicoya

PeriodPeriod VI

Date1000-1350 CE

MediumCeramic

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

Dimensions4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm)

Object number1991.004.269

Exhibition HistoryFive Continents-Nine Millennia, Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, International Concourse E, Atlanta, Georgia, March 1997 - February 1, 1999
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 13, 2002 - June 2012
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 9, 2013 - February 6, 2017
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), 103, figure 208.

ProvenanceProbably exported from Costa Rica by Enrique Vargas (Enrique Vargas Alfaro) (1915-208), San Jose, Costa Rica, March 21, 1973. Ex coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased from Vargas, March 1973.

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Not on view

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