Ceramic incense burner (double candelero)

Collection type: Object
Description: Ceramic incense burner (double candelero)
Long description: Pottery vessel with two holes in the top, four in the sides and decorated with a ?face on one end. The vessel ?face has two holes for eyes, two ears located on the side of the vessel and a projecting ?mouth, ?nose or possibly ?beak on one end. It is also decorated with incised lines. [SM 05/02/2008]
Geographical reference: Mexico
Latin America and the Caribbean > Central America > Mexico; Puebla State Cholula Great Pyramid of Cholula [Tlachihualtepetl]
Person: Field collector Charles Lempriere; PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Date / Period: Date made: On or before 1864
Date collected: ?On or before 1864
Acquisition information: Transferred: 05/10/1950
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Process Incised, Process Perforated, Process Decorated, Process Fire-Hardened
Dimensions: Length: max 74 mm, Width: max 42 mm, Height: max 42 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.1.1052 Other numbers: 1052

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