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Sacred clay tablet with flowers in container
Sacred clay tablet with flowers in container
Sacred clay tablet with flowers in container
DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet with flowers in container

NameTablet
Artist Artist unrecorded
Dateca. 1985
Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America
MediumClay
Dimensions1 7/8 × 1 7/16 × 7/16 in. (4.7 × 3.6 × 1.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.15
Object numberA.2014.26.15
DescriptionTablet showing flowers in a container. Pair of larger flowers reach from square container at base of tablet to top of tablet. These flowers have four petals each. Pair of smaller flowers extend from container to left and right edges of tablet at center.