Incense Burner (Incensario) Cover with a Seated Feline

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Incense Burner (Incensario) Cover with a Seated Feline

Date1200-1400

PlacePuebla Or Oaxaca(?), Mexico

MediumEarthenware with slip

DimensionsOverall: 5 3/4 × 3 3/4 in. (14.6 × 9.5 cm)

Credit LineGift of Alice Pratt Brown in memory of Mrs. Herman Brown

Object number63.3

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas

Object Type

CERAMICS

ProvenanceAlice Pratt Brown (1902–1984), Houston; given to MFAH, 1963.
Exhibition History"From Playful Pups to Feathered Serpents: Animals in Ancient Mesoamerican Art". MFAH Traveling Library Exhibition, 2000–2001.

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