Ritual Performers Effigy Incense Burner

AD 900-1200 (Early Postclassic)

16.3 cm 40.3 cm 18.2 cm

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The innovative incense burner of Postclassic Colima is composed of back-to-back figures, their heads merging to form the container for burning coals and incense. The handle also serves as the figures' imaginative headdresses, its tall arch providing support for an undulating s...

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80372
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Ron Messick Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John G. Bourne, 1990s, by purchase; given to Walters Art Museum, 2014
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en
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4
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