Lime Container (poporo) with Dipper

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Lime Container (poporo) with Dipper
CultureQuimbaya or Uraba
Titles
  • Lime Container (poporo) with Dipper
Date200–1600 AD
PlaceColombia, South America
MediumGold
Dimensions5 1/2 × 2 1/4 × 1 in. (14 × 5.7 × 2.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number2001.1045.A,.B
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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection
Object Type
ProvenanceProbably Dr. Howard Balensweig (1921–2011) and Carolyn Balenswieg (born 1945), New York, before 1999 [1]; Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. (1913–2008), Houston, by May 4, 2000–2001 [2]; given to MFAH, 2001.

[1] Robert Sonin report dated November 3 1999.
[2] Glassell Inventory, inventory number precedes purchase described on May 4, 2000.

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