DepartmentLatin America
Sacred clay tablet with design resembling a coat of arms
NameTablet
Artist
Artist not recorded
Dateca. 1985
Place madeEsquipulas, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Central America
MediumClay
Dimensions2 1/8 × 1 9/16 × 7/16 in. (5.4 × 3.9 × 1.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.75
Object numberA.2014.26.75
DescriptionTablet with design in center resembling a coat of arms. Zig-zag crenulations run along the top of a shield. Interior of shield has an arrangement of diagonal lines intersectng to form a sideways square in the center of the shield. At the bottom, two, narrow, pointed, short lines angle to left and right.
Pedro Antonio Fresquis
Los Castillo
first half 18th c.
