Pedestal Plate with a Stingray

CultureCoclé
Titles
  • Pedestal Plate with a Stingray
Date300–1550 AD
PlacePanama, Central America
MediumEarthenware with slip
DimensionsOverall: 7 × 10 9/16 × 11 5/8 in. (17.8 × 26.8 × 29.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Fund
Object number89.27
Current Location
The Caroline Wiess Law Building
205M Wiess Gallery
On view

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Provenance[David Bernstein Fine Art, New York, until 1989]; purchased by MFAH, 1989.
Exhibition History“Fangs, Feathers, and Fins: Sacred Creatures in Ancient American Art,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 15, 2014–March 22, 2015.

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