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: series in original language: creation date: 800-1200(?) creation date earliest: 800 creation date latest: 1200 current location: creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener copyright: --- 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: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 7.9 x 6.3 x 0.7 cm (3 1/8 x 2 1/2 x 1/4 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. 94, p. 273, repr. p. 260. --- PROVENANCE (Stendahl Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA, 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: 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- 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." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 79, no. 7 (1992): 234-75. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 260 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161367 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.213/1990.213_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.213/1990.213_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.213/1990.213_full.tif