id: 155419 accession number: 1990.149 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.149 updated: 2020-11-04 21:32:37.573000 Female Figurine, 400-100 BC. Mexico, Guanajuato, Chupícuaro. Pottery with white and red pigment; overall: 7.8 x 4.5 x 1.8 cm (3 1/16 x 1 3/4 x 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener 1990.149 title: Female Figurine title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 400-100 BC creation date earliest: 400 creation date latest: 100 current location: creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener copyright: --- culture: Mexico, Guanajuato, Chupícuaro technique: pottery with white and red pigment department: Art of the Americas collection: AA - Mesoamerica type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 7.8 x 4.5 x 1.8 cm (3 1/16 x 1 3/4 x 11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Benedict Crowell, Jr., Oaxaca, MX, 1966, given to James C. and Florence C. Gruener date: ?-1966 footnotes: citations: James C. [1903-1990] and Florence C. [1908-1982] Gruener, Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1966-1990 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1990- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Groups of figurines were sometimes arranged in scenes and likely used in household rituals. digital description: The Chupícuaro culture, located north of Mexico City in the state of Guanajuato, created a distinctive ceramic tradition including small clay figurines. This example is said to belong to a group of ten figurines from the same burial or cache (1990.145–154). The group includes both males and females that can be sorted into couples based on size. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Young-Sánchez, Margaret. "The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 79, no. 7 (1992): 234-75. page number: p. 268, no. 17 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161367 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.149/1990.149_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.149/1990.149_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.149/1990.149_full.tif