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1948.3.33B

Unidentified ceramic object

1948.3.33B

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Collection type
Object
Description
Unidentified ceramic object
Long description
Rectangular object with moulded design on one side, plain on the other. Possibly an incense burner ornament or the foot for a pottery vessel. The object has been broken in two and repaired at some point. One edge shows a fracture, the other three are moulded. [SM 07/02/2008]
Person
Field collector Mr Salinas
PRM source Norman King
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Zapotec, uncertain
Date collected
By 1926
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1948
Materials and processes
Material Pottery, Process Fire-Hardened, Process Moulded
Dimensions
Length x Width: max 50 x 32 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1948.3.33B
Research and responses

This object was examined by Dr Elizabeth Graham, UCL, as part of the Fell funded project Characterizing the World Archaeology Collections. She thought that this piece might be from a figurine or a part from a Classic period Teotihuacan censer. [AS 20/09/2010]

Vendor was Consul-General in Mexico, 1920-1926.

Search terms: Picture and Graphic Art, Pottery, Technique, Religion, Unidentified Object, Stamp, Incense-burner, Vessel