DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet with ornate cross

NameTablet

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Dateca. 1985

Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America

MediumClay

Dimensions2 1/16 × 1 5/8 × 7/16 in. (5.3 × 4.1 × 1.1 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.48

Object numberA.2014.26.48

Collections

Latin America

DescriptionTablet with ornate cross in upper center. Cross has protruding half-sphere in center surrounded by circle of very small beads. Two small flowers are on the upper left of cross. A sideways square shape is below left of cross. Medallion shape below right crossbar. Elongated rosary and row of four small flowers at base of cross.