id:			155443
accession number:	1990.170
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.170
updated:		2022-01-04 17:08:29.885000

Ring-Base Vessel, c. 600-1000. Honduras, Maya, Ulúa Valley, 7th-10th Century. Marble; overall: 9.5 x 13.5 x 10.1 cm (3 3/4 x 5 5/16 x 4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener 1990.170

title:				Ring-Base Vessel
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creation date:			c. 600-1000
creation date earliest:		600
creation date latest:		1000
current location:		
creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener
copyright:			

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culture:	Honduras, Maya, Ulúa Valley, 7th-10th Century
technique:	marble
department:	Art of the Americas
collection:	AA - Mesoamerica
type:		Sculpture
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 9.5 x 13.5 x 10.1 cm (3 3/4 x 5 5/16 x 4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art
	opening date:   1992-02-04T05:00:00
	<i>The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-November 29, 1992).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Art of the Americas</em>, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Oh (November 9, 1945 -January 6, 1946)

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PROVENANCE

	Payne Collection, Springfield, IL, 1936?, sold to James C. and Florence C. Gruener
	date: ?-1936
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	James C. [1903-1990] and Florence C. [1908-1982] Gruener, Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1936-1990
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1990
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fun fact: 
One of two vessels that were the first ancient American artworks collected by James and Florence Gruener.

digital description: 
The Ulúa region of Honduras, to the east of Maya territory, is best known for white marble vessels with walls ornamented in low relief and handles carved as animal heads, here bats but also felines, birds, monkeys, and others. This small example is distinguished by the crispness of its carved scrolls and the triangular cutouts of its pedestal base.

wall description: 
The Ulua region is best known for stone vessels with low-relief ornamented walls, and handles carved as felines or bats. This small but finely crafted example is distinguished by the crispness of the carved scrolls and the triangular cutouts of the pedestal base.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Stone, Doris. Masters in Marble. [New Orleans]: Dept. of Middle American Research, Tulane University, 1938.
	page number: 	p. 27
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	Von Winning, Hasso, and Alfred Stendahl. Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America: Text and Notes by Hasso Von Winning. Selection of Plates by Alfred Stendahl. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1968.
	page number: 	p. 310
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	Young-Sánchez, 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: 	Referenced: cat. no. 92, p. 272, Reproduced: fig. 92, p. 258
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25161367.

	Luke, Christina Marie. <em>Ulúa Style Marble Vases</em>. 2002.
	page number: 	p. 346, fig. E.30
	url:		

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