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Collections

Censer with Deity600–900 CE

Not on view
Ceramic Maya-style sculpture of a seated figure in elaborate headdress and bead collar, set within a framed vessel with relief carvings and projecting disk forms, gray-tan surface
Title
Censer with Deity
Culture
Maya
Place Made
Date Made
600–900 CE
Medium
Ceramic
Dimensions
Diameter: 8 1/2 in. (21.59 cm); 20 x 14 x 12 in. (50.8 x 35.56 x 30.48 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number
M.2010.115.849
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Art of the Ancient Americas
Selected Bibliography
  • Parsons, Lee A., John B. Carlson, and Peter David Joralemon. The Face of Ancient America: the Wally and Brenda Zollman Collection of Precolumbian Art. Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1988.