id: 138393 accession number: 1962.32 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.32 updated: 2021-06-10 09:00:22.165000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: 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 copyright: --- 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 find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 60.4 x 69.8 cm (23 3/4 x 27 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review - 1962 opening date: 1962-10-24T04:00:00 Year in Review - 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962). title: Maya: Secrets of Their Ancient World opening date: 2011-11-19T00:00:00 Maya: Secrets of Their Ancient World. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto M5S 2C6, Canada (organizer) (November 19, 2011-April 9, 2012); Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Canada (May 17-October 28, 2012). title: Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art opening date: 2022-11-14T05:00:00 Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (November 14, 2022-February 26, 2023); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (April 2-July 23, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The Blood of Kings: A New Interpretation of Maya Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 08 - December 14, 1986); Kimball Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (1986). --- PROVENANCE Stolper Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1962 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1962- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Palenque Round Table, Merle Greene Robertson, and Elizabeth P. Benson. Fourth Palenque Round Table, 1980: Proceedings of the Cuarta Mesa Redonda De Palenque, June 8-14, 1980. San Francisco: Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute, 1985. page number: url: Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, Juan Pedro Laporte, Héctor L. Escobedo, and Sandra Villagrán de Brady. VI Simposio de investigaciones arqueológicas en Guatemala, 1992: Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología. Guatemala: Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, 1993. page number: url: Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review 1962." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 49, no. 9 (1962) page number: p. 215, 223 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151915 Hawley, Henry H. "A Maya Relief." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 3 (1963). page number: p. 50 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151941 Hawley, Henry. "Pre-Columbian Art at Cleveland." Apollo: A Journal for the Arts, LXXVIII , (December, 1963). page number: pp. 489-493 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 293 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n317 Alsop, Joseph. "Treasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art." Art in America. (May-June 1966). page number: p. 35 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art Picture Book (1967). page number: 230 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. 1967. page number: no. 230 url: Wardwell, Allen. 1967. "A Maya Ball Game Relief". Museum Studies / the Art Institute of Chicago. 62-73. page number: url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 293 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n317 Coggins, Clemency. "Illicit Traffic of Pre-Columbian Antiquities." Art Journal 29, no. 1 (1969). page number: pp. 94-98 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/775285 Dunning, Dieter. "Hierogylphic Miscellanea." Jan Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie. (1970). page number: pp. 229-30 url: Dunning, Dieter. "On the Inscription and Iconography of Kuna- Laanha Lintel 1." (1970). page number: p. 200 & 213 url: Coggins, Clemency. "Displaced Maya Sculpture." Estudios de Cultura Maya. Publicacion Annual del Centro de Estudios Mayas. vol. VIII. (Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1972. page number: p. 22 url: Marcus, Joyce. Emblem and State in the Classic Maya Lowlands: An Epigraphic Approach to Territorial Organization. Washington: Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, 1976. page number: p. 171, 174 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 396 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n416 Mayer, Karl Herbert. Maya Monuments: Sculptures of Unknown Provenance in Europe. Ramona, Calif: Acoma Books, 1978. page number: p. 1-2, no. 5 url: Robicsek, Francis. The Smoking Gods: Tobacco in Maya Art, History, and Religion. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1978. page number: p. 86, fig. 93 url: Mayer, Karl Herbert. Maya Monuments: Sculptures of Unknown Provenance in the United States. Ramona, Calif: Acoma Books, 1980. page number: pl. 30 url: Yale University, George Kubler, and E. W. Faller. Pre-Columbian art of Mexico and Central America. 1986. page number: no. 470, p. 167, 293, 326 url: Schele, Linda, Mary Ellen Miller, and Justin Kerr. The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art. New York: G. Braziller, 1986. page number: pp. 76, 85, pl. 1 url: "The Blood of Kings - Historic Background." Press Release document. The Cleveland Museum of Art: 1986. page number: url: "The Blood of Kings - Cleveland Museum of Art Hosts Landmark Exhibition of Maya Art." Press Release document. The Cleveland Museum of Art: 1986. page number: url: Altman, Patricia B., and Caroline D. West. Threads of Identity: Maya Costume of the 1960s in Highland Guatemala. Los Angeles, Calif., USA: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1992. page number: fig. 5 url: Montgomery, John Ellis. Sculptors of the Realm: Classic Maya Artists' Signatures and Sculptural Style During the Reign of Piedras Negras Ruler 7. 1995. page number: url: Jennings, Justin, Martha Cuevas García, and Roberto López Bravo. Maya: Secrets of Their Ancient World. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum Press, 2011. page number: p. 48 url: Jackson, Sarah E. Politics of the Maya Court: Hierarchy and Change in the Late Classic Period. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. page number: p. 43, fig. 19 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.32/1962.32_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.32/1962.32_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.32/1962.32_full.tif