Incense Burner (lid) (600–1000): Art, History and Details
Incense Burner (lid) at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 600–1000, pottery. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Incense Burner (lid) (600–1000) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
According to the Popol Vuh, a sixteenth-century Quiché Maya manuscript, the world has been created and destroyed twice, and we now live in the third creation. In the second creation, human beings were made from wood and reeds. They lacked souls and minds, and they did not revere their creator. Because of these imperfections, most were killed by an uprising of utensils and domestic animals. Monkeys are the descendents of the survivors.
Object facts
- Title: Incense Burner (lid)
- Date: 600–1000
- Culture: Guatemala, Quiché, San Juan Cotzal, Maya
- Type: Ceramic
- Technique: pottery
- Dimensions: Overall: 16.3 x 25.5 cm (6 7/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
- Collection: AA - Mesoamerica
- Department: Art of the Americas
- Accession number: 1991.211.b
Collection credit
Bequest of Harley Lee
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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