{"data": {"id": 132047, "accession_number": "1954.602", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Pendant: Face, 1900s. Africa, West Africa, C\u00f4te d'Ivoire, possibly Baule-style goldsmith. Gold; overall: 7.6 x 5 cm (3 x 1 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1954.602", "current_location": "108C African Jewelry and Metalwork", "title": "Pendant: Face", "creation_date": "1900s", "creation_date_earliest": 1900, "creation_date_latest": 1954, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Africa, West Africa, C\u00f4te d'Ivoire, possibly Baule-style goldsmith"], "technique": "Gold", "support_materials": [], "department": "African Art", "collection": "African Art", "type": "Jewelry", "measurements": "Overall: 7.6 x 5 cm (3 x 1 15/16 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.076, "height_inch": 3, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0, "width": 0.05, "width_inch": 1, "width_inch_fraction": 0.9375}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 702986, "title": "Masks: The Many Faces of Man", "description": "<i>Masks: The Many Faces of Man</i>. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto M5S 2C6, Canada (organizer) (February 10-April 5, 1959).", "opening_date": "1959-02-10T05:00:00"}, {"id": 519209, "title": "The Imagination of Primitive Man", "description": "<i>The Imagination of Primitive Man</i>. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (organizer) (January 18-February 25, 1962).", "opening_date": "1962-01-18T05:00:00"}, {"id": 311444, "title": "Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum", "description": "<i>Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).", "opening_date": "1991-06-07T04:00:00"}, {"id": 205336, "title": "Baule:  African Art/Western Eyes", "description": "<i>Baule:  African Art/Western Eyes</i>. Yale University Art Gallery (organizer) (August 30, 1997-January 4, 1998); The Art Institute of Chicago (February 14-May 10, 1998).", "opening_date": "1997-08-30T00:00:00"}, {"id": 221090, "title": "Baule:  African Art/Western Eyes", "description": "<i>Baule:  African Art/Western Eyes</i>. Museum for African Art, NY (September 11, 1998-January 3, 1999); National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC (February 9-May 16, 1999).", "opening_date": "1998-09-11T00:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, 1959, Exhibition of Masks,, February 10-April 5, 1959, cat. D-21, repr. p. 49.", "opening_date": "1959-02-10T00:00:00"}, {"description": "Philadelphia, University Museum, 1959:  The University of Pennsylvania, The Seven Metals of Africa, November 12, 1959-Jan. 12, 1960; the Cleveland Museum of Art, June 21-July 24, 1960, no. F-4.", "opening_date": "1960-06-21T00:00:00"}, {"description": "Kansas City, MO, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, The Imagination of Primitive Man, January 18-February 25, 1962, cat. no. 31B.", "opening_date": "1962-01-18T00:00:00"}, {"description": "CMA 1991:  Object Lessons:  Cleveland Creates an Art Museum, June 7-September 8, 1991.", "opening_date": "1991-06-07T00:00:00"}, {"description": "New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 8/30/97 - 1/4/98.  Art Institute of Chicago, 2/14/98 - 5/19/98. NY: The Museum for African Art, 9/11/98 - 1/3/99.  Washington, DC: National Museum for African Art, 2/9/99 - 5/16/99, Baule: African Art: Western Eyes. color repr. p. 201.", "opening_date": "1997-08-30T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "C. G\u00e9raudel", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "?-1951", "sortorder": null}, {"description": "Nasli Heeramaneck (Galleries), New York, NY", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1951-1954", "sortorder": null}, {"description": "Cleveland Museum of Art by purchase", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1954-present", "sortorder": 4}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "The raised texture seen on the forehead are remains of the gating technique used to introduce molten metal into the mold during lost-wax casting and indicate that the surface was not highly finished after casting.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Cast using the lost-wax method, gold objects are the only Baule art forms associated with ancestral spirits. Usually stored in suitcases or pots, a collection of gold adornments (<em>aja</em>) are displayed on important occasions such as funerals. They are laid out around the corpse before burial as a sign of respect and their family's wealth. Faces such as this pendant are said to be idealized portraits of friends or lovers. This depiction of a man has a beard and elaborately styled hair.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60761088"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1954.602-pendant-face"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Chauvet, Stephen. \"Objets d'or, de bronze et d'ivoire dans l'art n\u00e8gre.\" Cahiers d'Art 5 (1930): 33-40, fig.15.", "page_number": "", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Drewal, Henry John. African Art: A Brief Guide to the Collection. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1989, fig.23.", "page_number": "", "url": ""}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 391", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n72"}, {"citation": "Plass, Margaret. <em>7 Metals of Africa: [a Traveling Exhibtion, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the City Art Museum of St. Louis, the University Museum]</em>. Philadelphia: [publisher not identified], 1959.", "page_number": "Reproduced and mentioned: p. 26, cat. F-5", "url": null}, {"citation": "William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, and Ralph T. Coe. <em>The Imagination of Primitive Man: A Survey of the Arts of the Non-Literate Peoples of the World.</em> Kansas City, Mo: The Museum, 1962.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 24, cat. no. 31", "url": null}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 302", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n326"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 302", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n326"}, {"citation": "Royal Ontario Museum. <em>Masks: The Many Faces of Man : an Exhibition Presented by the Division of Art and Archaeology of the Royal Ontario Museum</em>, Toronto Canada. Toronto: The Museum, 1959.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 42, cat. no. D 21; Reproduced: p. 49, cat. no. D 21", "url": null}, {"citation": "Wixom, WIlliam D. \"African Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art.\" <em>African Arts</em>. 10, no. 3. (April 1977) 16-25.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 17, fig 2; mentioned: p. 19", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/3335296"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 410", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n430"}, {"citation": "Vogel, Susan Mullin. <em>Baule: African Art, Western Eyes</em>. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1997.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 299; Reproduced: p. 201", "url": null}, {"citation": "Petridis, Constantijn. <em>South of the Sahara: selected works of African art. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003.", "page_number": "Reproduced: cat. 18, p. 66 - 67", "url": ""}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.602", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.602/1954.602_web.jpg", "width": "598", "height": "893", "filesize": "270604", "filename": "1954.602_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.602/1954.602_print.jpg", "width": "2276", "height": "3400", "filesize": "1108541", "filename": "1954.602_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.602/1954.602_full.tif", "width": "3886", "height": "5806", "filesize": "67707416", "filename": "1954.602_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "John L. 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