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Source Description
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 serpent attached at the front. Similar saurian forms are found today on the headdresses and masks of ritual performers in Colima and Guerrero. The conjoined figures' outstretched arms and wide stance are strikingly similar to those of the Veracruz ritual dancers (see 2009.20.47), which prompts a similar identification for this unusual type of anthropomorphic incense burner.
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Document identity
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80372
label
Ritual Performers Effigy Incense Burner
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Source metadata
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80372
contentType
object
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title
Ritual Performers Effigy Incense Burner
description
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 serpent attached at the front. Similar saurian forms are found today on the headdresses and masks of ritual performers in Colima and Guerrero. The conjoined figures' outstretched arms and wide stance are strikingly similar to those of the Veracruz ritual dancers (see 2009.20.47), which prompts a similar identification for this unusual type of anthropomorphic incense burner.
provenance
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
date
AD 900-1200 (Early Postclassic)
citationUrl
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CC0
language
en
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Ceramics
figures
incense burners
effigies
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4
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4
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import
dimensions
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cm
width
40.3
height
16.3
depth
18.2
dimensionsRaw
H: 15 7/8 x W: 6 7/16 x D: 7 3/16 in. (40.3 x 16.3 x 18.2 cm)
Source extras
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Colima
med
earthenware, post-fire paint (yellow)
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16368
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AME
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none
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