Incensario Stand with Seated Ruler

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CultureMaya

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Incensario Stand with Seated Ruler

Datec. 600-1000

MediumEarthenware with pigment

Dimensions22 13/16 × 16 15/16 × 13 15/16 in. (58 × 43 × 35.4 cm)

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

Object number2022.681

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas

Object Type

CEREMONIAL OBJECTS & REGALIA

Provenance[Hector Santamarina, Florida, by mid-1960’s] [1] [2]; purchased by private collector (possibly Sam Pascasio?), Florida, mid-1960’s [2] [3]; purchased by [Ed Merrin, New York, 1980s] [4] [5]; purchased by private collector, New York, 1996; sold at Binoche et Giquello, Paris, June 29, 2021, lot 69; purchased by [Merrin Gallery, New York, 2021].

[1] Letter to come from Santamarina’s son
[2] Restoration in Florida by Jaime Garcia
[3] Authentication by Ed Merrin, 1968.
[4] Restoration in New York by Jaime Garcia
[5] Photographed by Justin Kerr, October 1995, logbook #K7045

Exhibition HistoryThe Merrin Gallery, New York, Wonders of the Past, 1996.
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