incensario
- Museum number
- Am1989,12.184.a
- Description
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Incensario (one of a pair); made of varnished pottery; circular base, tapering to stem, then flaring out for cup at top; painted in bright colours with cross-hatching; two fuchsia birds on wires at bottom; white flower with red petals painted on stem; two turquoise flowers with purple teardrops hanging from them by wire at top of stem; two fuchsia flowers with fuchsia teardrops on side of cup; orange flower, yellow stem, grey bird on top, green fruit on wire on each side of rim; human archangel with fish hanging from wire in left hand, fruit hanging from wire in right hand on front of rim.
- Production date
- 1980s
- Dimensions
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Height: 39 centimetres
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Width: 18 centimetres
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Depth: 15 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1991, London, Museum of Mankind, 'The Skeleton at the Feast: The Day of the Dead'
- Acquisition date
- 1989
- Acquisition notes
- Cost for both (a-b).
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1989,12.184.a
