id:			155512
accession number:	1990.231
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.231
updated:		2024-03-26 02:00:09.704000

Vessel with Butterfly Headdress, 1–550 CE. Central Mexico, Teotihuacán, Classic period. Ceramic, stucco, pigment; diameter: 15.6 x 15.8 cm (6 1/8 x 6 1/4 in.); overall: 15.5 cm (6 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener 1990.231

title:				Vessel with Butterfly Headdress
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creation date:			1–550 CE
creation date earliest:		200
creation date latest:		550
current location:		233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region
creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener
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culture:	Central Mexico, Teotihuacán, Classic period
technique:	ceramic, stucco, pigment
department:	Art of the Americas
collection:	AA - Mesoamerica
type:		Ceramic
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measurements: Diameter: 15.6 x 15.8 cm (6 1/8 x 6 1/4 in.); Overall: 15.5 cm (6 1/8 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

* {'description': '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. 57, p. 270, repr. fig. 57, p. 251.', 'opening_date': '1992-02-04T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Stendahl Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA, 1965, sold to James C. and Florence C. Gruener)
	date: ?-1965
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	James C. [1903-1990] and Florence C. [1908-1982] Gruener, Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1965-1990
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1990
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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. 177, fig. 211
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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: 	Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 251
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161367

	Conides, Cynthia. “Figures in Action: Contextualizing the Butterfly Personage at Teotihuacan, Mexico.” In Visual Culture of the Ancient Americas: Contemporary Perspectives. Andrew Finegold and Ellen Hoobler, 103-133. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017.
	page number: 	82, 105
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	Conides, Cynthia. <em>Made to Order: Painted Ceramics of Ancient Teotihuacan</em>. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 2018.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cover, pp. 50, 74, plate 16, fig. 319a; mentioned: pp. 73, 115, 163, 195
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