Object Title
Incense Burner
Measurements
17.8 x 34.2 cm
Creation Date
500-1350 CE
Credit Line
Ex coll. William C. and Carol W. Thibadeau
Museum Name
Museum Contact
ashanle@emory.edu
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
https://collections.carlos.emory.edu/objects/14976/incense-burner-with-doubleheaded-crocodile-effigy-lid?ctx=c5019a529015a1bbb9463009852fc8e731802c8b&idx=0
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
Older than 100 years.
Provenance Information
Ex coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased April 1973.
Exhibition Information
Seeing with New Eyes: Pre-Columbian Art from the Thibadeau Collection, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, March 4 - October 13, 1992
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - 2001
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 13, 2002 - June 6, 2012
'For I am the Black Jaguar': Shamanic Visionary Experience in Ancient American Art, Michael C. Carlos Museum, September 5, 2012 - January 5, 2013
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 9, 2013 - January 9, 2017
Desire and Consumption: The New World in the Age of Shakespeare, Michael C. Carlos Museum, January 14 - April 9, 2017
MCCM Permanent Collection Gallery, April 14, 2017 - Present
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - 2001
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 13, 2002 - June 6, 2012
'For I am the Black Jaguar': Shamanic Visionary Experience in Ancient American Art, Michael C. Carlos Museum, September 5, 2012 - January 5, 2013
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 9, 2013 - January 9, 2017
Desire and Consumption: The New World in the Age of Shakespeare, Michael C. Carlos Museum, January 14 - April 9, 2017
MCCM Permanent Collection Gallery, April 14, 2017 - Present
Publication Information
Rebecca Stone-Miller, Seeing With New Eyes: Highlights of the Michael C. Carlos Museum Collection of Art of the Ancient Americas (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2002), 90, figure 174ab.
Rebecca Stone, The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011), 73, figure 4.2.
Rebecca Stone, The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011), 73, figure 4.2.
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Gift or bequest expected or on loan prior to 2008
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
Acquired by museum in 1991.