id:			138393
accession number:	1962.32
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.32
updated:		2019-06-27 08:08:38.508000

Panel with Royal Woman, c. 795. Maya style, Mexico or Guatemala, Usumacinta River region, Classic Period, 250-900. Limestone; overall: 60.4 x 69.8 cm (23 3/4 x 27 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1962.32

title:				Panel with Royal Woman
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creation date:			c. 795
creation date earliest:		750
creation date latest:		850
current location:		233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Maya style, Mexico or Guatemala, Usumacinta River region, Classic Period, 250-900
technique:	limestone
department:	Art of the Americas
collection:	AA - Mesoamerica
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 60.4 x 69.8 cm (23 3/4 x 27 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review - 1962
	opening date:   1962-10-24T04:00:00
	<i>Year in Review - 1962</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 24-November 25, 1962).

	title:		Maya: Secrets of Their Ancient World
	opening date:   2011-11-19T00:00:00
	<i>Maya: Secrets of Their Ancient World</i>. Royal Ontario Museum (organizer) (November 19, 2011-April 9, 2012); Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada (May 17-October 28, 2012).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 1986. Fort Worth, TX: Kimball Art Museum; 1986.  "The Blood of Kings: A New Interpretation of Maya Art." Pl. 1, entry pg 76, color repr. pg 85.<br>Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (November 19, 2011 - April 9, 2012) and Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau (5/17/2012 - 10/28/2012):  "Maya: Secrets of Their Ancient World"

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PROVENANCE

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wall description: 
In this panel, probably from a palace interior, the woman’s static posture contrasts with the liveliness of the creature she holds, a god of royalty with a serpent leg and a grotesque head with a smoking torch on its brow. (The same deity is shown in the nearby Eccentric Flint.) Other signs of high rank are her jade jewelry and costume, its beauty suggesting that textiles and featherwork were great Maya arts, now lost to a tropical climate. The hieroglyphics refer to an undefined ritual that the woman completed in 795.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	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. 293
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n317

	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. 293
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n317

	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. 396
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n416

	Altman, Patricia B., and Caroline D. West. <em>Threads of Identity: Maya Costume of the 1960s in Highland Guatemala</em>. Los Angeles, Calif., USA: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1992.
	page number: 	fig. 5
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IMAGES

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