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© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
Pedestal Plate with Jaguar Motifs
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Pedestal Plate with Jaguar Motifs

Place CreatedPanama, North America
CultureMacaracas
PeriodPeriod VIB
Date800-1000 CE
MediumCeramic
Credit LineGift of William C. and Carol W. Thibadeau
Dimensions8 3/8 x 10 5/8 in. (21.3 x 27 cm)
Object number1990.011.294
Exhibition HistorySeeing with New Eyes: Pre-Columbian Art from the Thibideau Collection, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, March 4 - October 13, 1992
Intricate 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
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).
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), 166, figure 391.
ProvenanceEx coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased from Kenneth Klassen, Bogota, Colombia, May 7, 1985.
Status
Not on view
Collections
  • Art of the Americas