id:			155492
accession number:	1990.213
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.213
updated:		2022-06-17 09:00:49.832000

Offering Group: Plaque with Frontal and Profile Faces, 800-1200(?). Mexico, Guerrero(?), San Jerónimo de Juárez, Xochicalco style. Jadeite with albitite; overall: 7.9 x 6.3 x 0.7 cm (3 1/8 x 2 1/2 x 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener 1990.213

title:				Offering Group: Plaque with Frontal and Profile Faces
title in original language:	
series:				
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creation date:			800-1200(?)
creation date earliest:		800
creation date latest:		1200
current location:		
creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener
copyright:			

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culture:	Mexico, Guerrero(?), San Jerónimo de Juárez, Xochicalco style
technique:	jadeite with albitite
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: 7.9 x 6.3 x 0.7 cm (3 1/8 x 2 1/2 x 1/4 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

* 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. 94, p. 273, repr. p. 260.

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PROVENANCE

	(Stendahl Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA, 1966, sold to James C. and Florence C. Gruener)
	date: ?-1966
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	James C. [1903-1990] and Florence C. [1908-1982] Gruener, Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1966-1990
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1990
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fun fact: 
The red pigment may be cinnabar, the same mineral used to color Chinese lacquerware.

digital description: 
This greenstone plaque is said to have been found inside a translucent stone vessel, together with two shells (1990.252.1–3). A similar offering was found in a pyramid ornamented with feathered serpents at Xochicalco, a site south of the Valley of Mexico.

wall description: 
This group is said to have been found together, the shells and greenstone plaque inside the translucent stone vessel. This report is lent credibility by the red pigment that unifies the group and also by a similar offering that was found in a pyramid ornamented with feathered serpents at Xochicalco, a site south of the Valley of Mexico. The offering's meaning is unknown.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	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. 246, fig. 338
	url:		

	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: 	Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 260
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161367

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IMAGES

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