id:			155543
accession number:	1990.252.2
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.252.2
updated:		2023-03-14 12:01:42.451000

Offering Group: Large Shell, c. 800–1200(?). Mexico, Guerrero(?), San Jerónimo de Juárez, Xochicalco style. Shell, red pigment; overall: 12 cm (4 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener 1990.252.2

title:				Offering Group: Large Shell
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creation date:			c. 800–1200(?)
creation date earliest:		800
creation date latest:		1200
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creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener
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culture:	Mexico, Guerrero(?), San Jerónimo de Juárez, Xochicalco style
technique:	shell, red pigment
department:	Art of the Americas
collection:	AA - Mesoamerica
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 12 cm (4 3/4 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. 96, p. 273, repr. p. 260.

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PROVENANCE

	(Stendahl Galleries, Hollywood); James and Florence Gruener, Cleveland, 1966
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	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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