DepartmentLatin America

Sacred clay tablet with very abstract and decorative image of Virgin

NameTablet

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Dateca. 1985

Place madeEtla, Oaxaca, Mexico, North America

MediumClay

Dimensions3 1/2 × 2 5/8 × 11/16 in. (8.9 × 6.6 × 1.8 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Susan Horst Mori, from the Oscar Horst Collection, A.2014.26.156

Object numberA.2014.26.156

Collections

Latin America

DescriptionTablet with very abstract and decorative image of Virgin. Outline of gown curves down from head of figure, represented by a simple, solid circle. Double rows of smaller round shapes, representing flowers, curve slightly betweeen sides of gown and edges of tablet. Many more flowers inside outline of gown below abstract clasped hands of the figure.