id: 155461 accession number: 1990.187 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.187 updated: Architectural Model, 100 BC-AD 300. Mexico, Guerrero, Mezcala. Serpentine; overall: 12 x 4.7 x 2.6 cm (4 3/4 x 1 7/8 x 1 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener 1990.187 title: Architectural Model title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 100 BC-AD 300 creation date earliest: -100 creation date latest: 300 current location: creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener copyright: --- culture: Mexico, Guerrero, Mezcala technique: serpentine department: Art of the Americas collection: AA - Mesoamerica type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 12 x 4.7 x 2.6 cm (4 3/4 x 1 7/8 x 1 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art opening date: 1992-02-04T05:00:00 The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-November 29, 1992). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 4 - November 29, 1992. "The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art. 79 (September, 1992.) cat. no. 40, p. 269, repr. fig. 40, p. 248. --- PROVENANCE (Frances Pratt, Inc., New York, NY, 1962, sold to James C. and Florence C. Gruener) date: ?-1962 footnotes: citations: James C. [1903-1990] and Florence C. [1908-1982] Gruener, Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1962-1990 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1990 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Mezcala architectural models reportedly come from burials, but few have been scientifically excavated. digital description: The Mezcala style takes its name from a river in its homeland, the Guerrero region of western Mexico. The style is known for small-scale stone sculptures including architectural “models” characterized by sleek abstraction. Because comparisons to actual architecture in the Mezcala region are scarce, it is not known whether the models refer to temples, houses, or underground funerary structures. 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: Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 248 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161367 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.187/1990.187_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.187/1990.187_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.187/1990.187_full.tif