{"data": {"id": 155454, "accession_number": "1990.180", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Vessel with Ballplayer, c. 600\u20131000. Mexico, Yucat\u00e1n, Maya (Chochol\u00e1) style (250-900). Earthenware, pigment; diameter: 18.1 x 15.6 cm (7 1/8 x 6 1/8 in.); overall: 18 cm (7 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener, 1990.180", "current_location": "233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region", "title": "Vessel with Ballplayer", "creation_date": "c. 600\u20131000", "creation_date_earliest": 600, "creation_date_latest": 1000, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Mexico, Yucat\u00e1n, Maya (Chochol\u00e1) style (250-900)"], "technique": "earthenware, pigment", "support_materials": [], "department": "Art of the Americas", "collection": "AA - Mesoamerica", "type": "Ceramic", "measurements": "Diameter: 18.1 x 15.6 cm (7 1/8 x 6 1/8 in.); Overall: 18 cm (7 1/16 in.)", "dimensions": {"diameter": {"height": 0.181, "height_inch": 7, "height_inch_fraction": 0.125, "width": 0.156, "width_inch": 6, "width_inch_fraction": 0.125}, "overall": {"height": 0.18, "height_inch": 7, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0625}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 344809, "title": "The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art", "description": "<i>The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-November 29, 1992).", "opening_date": "1992-02-04T05:00:00"}, {"id": 224436, "title": "The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame", "description": "<i>The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame</i>. Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC (September 24-December 30, 2001); New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA (February 16-April 28, 2002).", "opening_date": "2001-09-24T00:00:00"}, {"id": 441598, "title": "Artlens Exhibition 2019", "description": "<i>Artlens Exhibition 2019</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer).", "opening_date": "2019-06-11T04:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "(Lee Moore: Fine Art of the Americas, Miami, FL, 1971, sold to James C. Gruener and Florence C, Gruener)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?-1971", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "James C. [1903-1990] and Florence C. [1908-1982] Gruener, Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1971-1990", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1990", "sortorder": 3}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "This vessel was once broken into 34 pieces before being repaired.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Many Mesoamerican people played ball games, using their hips rather than hands and feet to keep the heavy, solid rubber ball in play. Here a Maya ballplayer, wearing a thick protector to shield his torso from injury, dives to intercept the ball, which hovers in front of his face. The scene is situated within stepped walls, probably those of a ball court.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60760298"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1990.180-vessel-with-ballplay"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Merrony, Mark. \u201cThe Maya : First Lords of the Jungle.\" <em>Antiqvvs</em> 3, n. 3 (Summer 2021): 39-44.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 43", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Turner, Evan H. \"Acquisitions: 1990.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 78, no. 2 (1991): 30-45.", "page_number": "p. 33", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161314"}, {"citation": "Young-S\u00e1nchez, Margaret. \"The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 79, no. 7 (1992): 234-75.", "page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 88, p. 272, Reproduced: fig. 88, p.256", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25161367."}, {"citation": "Whittington, E. Michael. <em>The Sport of Life and Death The Mesoamerican Ballgame.</em> London: Thames &amp; Hudson, 2001.", "page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 111, p. 237", "url": null}, {"citation": "Werness, Maline Diane.<em> Chochola\u0301 Ceramics and the Politics of Northwestern Yucata\u0301n. </em>2010.", "page_number": "Figure 86 and pp. 62, 168, 278", "url": null}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.180", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.180/1990.180_web.jpg", "width": "714", "height": "893", "filesize": "355338", "filename": "1990.180_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.180/1990.180_print.jpg", "width": "2719", "height": "3400", "filesize": "4837233", "filename": "1990.180_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.180/1990.180_full.tif", "width": "3633", "height": "4543", "filesize": "49530672", "filename": "1990.180_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [{"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.180/1990.180_alt0_web.jpg", "width": "732", "height": "893", "filesize": "361530"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.180/1990.180_alt0_print.jpg", "width": "2787", "height": "3400", "filesize": "4921484"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.180/1990.180_alt0_full.tif", "width": "3643", "height": "4445", "filesize": "48595608"}, "annotation": ""}, {"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.180/1990.180_alt1_web.jpg", "width": "707", "height": "893", "filesize": "355229"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.180/1990.180_alt1_print.jpg", "width": "2690", "height": "3400", "filesize": "4675812"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.180/1990.180_alt1_full.tif", "width": "3476", "height": "4393", "filesize": "45826148"}, "annotation": ""}], "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. 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