DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet with monstrance

NameTablet

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Dateca. 1985

Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America

MediumClay

Dimensions2 3/16 × 1 3/4 × 9/16 in. (5.5 × 4.4 × 1.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.23

Object numberA.2014.26.23

DescriptionTablet with monstrance at center. Cross in middle of circular top of monstrance, surrounded by rays. Two horizontal and two diagonal lines form base of monstrance. Horizontal botanical shapes flank base of monstrance. Three small flowers on left side of top of monstrance.