id: 155452 accession number: 1990.179 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.179 updated: 2020-11-04 21:32:42.373000 Face Fragment, 600-1000. Mexico, Palenque region(?), Maya. Molded pottery; overall: 15.5 x 13 x 9 cm (6 1/8 x 5 1/8 x 3 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener 1990.179 title: Face Fragment title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 600-1000 creation date earliest: 600 creation date latest: 1000 current location: creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener copyright: --- culture: Mexico, Palenque region(?), Maya technique: molded pottery department: Art of the Americas collection: AA - Mesoamerica type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 15.5 x 13 x 9 cm (6 1/8 x 5 1/8 x 3 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE David Bramhall, 1966, sold 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 date: 1990 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: G1’s distinctive tooth was perhaps inspired by a 63 million-year-old fossilized shark tooth. digital description: This thick, heavy ceramic face fragment may come from an incensario (incense burner). Several features, including the tau- or T-shaped front teeth, suggest it represents a deity known today only as G1 due to difficulties in translating its Maya name, which is recorded in hieroglyphs. The deity’s meanings are equally elusive, though it seems to be associated with both the sun and water. 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. 272, no. 87 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161367 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.179/1990.179_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.179/1990.179_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.179/1990.179_full.tif