id:			123778
accession number:	1944.290
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.290
updated:		2024-03-26 01:57:58.779000

Disk Pendant (akrafokɔnmu), 1800s, before 1871; pin added later. Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Asante Empire/ Kingdom, member of the goldsmiths’ guild. Gold; overall: 7 x 7.6 x 1.6 cm (2 3/4 x 3 x 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, James Albert Ford Memorial Fund 1944.290

title:				Disk Pendant (akrafokɔnmu)
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creation date:			1800s, before 1871; pin added later
creation date earliest:		1800
creation date latest:		1870
current location:		108C Akan & Yoruba
creditline:			James Albert Ford Memorial Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Asante Empire/ Kingdom, member of the goldsmiths’ guild
technique:	Gold
department:	African Art
collection:	African Art
type:		Jewelry
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 7 x 7.6 x 1.6 cm (2 3/4 x 3 x 5/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Imagination of Primitive Man
	opening date:   1962-01-18T05:00:00
	<i>The Imagination of Primitive Man</i>. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (organizer) (January 18-February 25, 1962).

	title:		The Arts of Ghana
	opening date:   1977-10-11T04:00:00
	<i>The Arts of Ghana</i>. Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (October 11-December 11, 1977); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (February 11-March 26, 1978); The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (May 3-July 2, 1978).

	title:		The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2006-06-09T00:00:00
	<i>The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'College of Science Dublin - c. 1870s or 1880s', 'opening_date': None}

* {'description': 'Portland Art Museum (11/21/1952 - 12/28/1952): "Exhibition of Jewelry"', 'opening_date': '1952-11-21T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (1/18/1962 - 2/25/1962): "The Imagination of Primitive Man"', 'opening_date': '1962-01-18T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'UCLA Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles (September 1977 - 8/1/1978): "The Arts of Ghana", traveling exhibition', 'opening_date': '1978-08-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art"', 'opening_date': '2006-06-09T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Dr. Harry T. Reilly reportedly by gift from three Asante chiefs
	date: before 1871
	footnotes: 	
			
			* <div><!--block-->Letter from Jennie Devin Reilly, March 23, 1886 (CMA Curatorial File)</div>
			
			
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	Jennie Devin Reilly, Washington, D.C.
	date: about 1871–1886
	footnotes: 	
			
			* <div><!--block-->Letter from Jennie Devin Reilly, March 23, 1886 (CMA Curatorial File)</div>
			
			
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	Thomas F. Meehan, by descent to his son-in-law Alfred B. Cadley
	date: 1886–
	footnotes: 	
			
			* <div><!--block-->Letter from Alfred B. Cadley, May 5, 1944; Letter from Jeannie Devin Reilly, March 23, 1886 (CMA Curatorial File). For ID of "father in law" of Cadley, as described in Reilly letter, see p. 119 “Notes and Comments.” <em>The Catholic Historical Review</em> 29, no. 1 (1943): 118–32. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25014264.</div>
			
			
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	(Alfred B. Cadley Company, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1944
	footnotes: 	
			
			* <div><!--block-->Letter from Alfred B. Cadley, May 5, 1944 (CMA Curatorial File)</div>
			
			
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1944–
	footnotes: 	
			
			* <div><!--block--><em>Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, December 1944</div>
			
			
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Foote, Helen S. “A Gold Ornament from Ashanti.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 31, no. 10 (December 1944): p. 180-181.
	page number: 	Image p. 178.
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141167

	Sims, Lowery Stokes. <em>The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 32, no. 36
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	Cole, Herbert M., and Doran H. Ross. <em>The Arts of Ghana</em>. Los Angeles: Museum of Cultural History, University of California, 1977.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 153; reproduced: p. 156, fig. 325
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	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. 25, cat. no. 34
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