Incensario Stand

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Artist Unknown Central and South American

CultureMaya

Titles

Incensario Stand

Datec. 600–900

PlaceMexico

MediumEarthenware with pigment

Dimensions24 × 14 × 9 in. (61 × 35.6 × 22.9 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Accessions Endowment

Object number2018.637

Current Location

The Caroline Wiess Law Building

205M Wiess Gallery

Exposé

Explore Further

Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas

Object Type

VESSELS

Provenance[Edward Merrin Gallery, New York, by 1970] [1][2]; purchased by private collector; inherited by private collector’s children; purchased by [Merrin Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2018.

[1] Merrin slide dated July, 1970
[2] Justin Kerr photo dated April, 1970

Published References Marilyn Goldstein, “The Ceremonial Role of the Maya Flanged Censer,” Man 12, no. 3/4 (1977): 405-406. fig. 1, 412, 414-415, fig. 4b, 417-419. Gerald Berjonneau and Jean-Louis Sonnery, Rediscovered Masterpieces of Mesoamerica: Mexico-Guatemala-Honduras, (Boulogne, France: Editions Arts, 1985), 251, fig. 399. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

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