id:			155544
accession number:	1990.252.3
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.252.3
updated:		2025-11-14 12:48:46.779000

Offering Group: Small Shell, c. 800–1200(?). Mexico, Guerrero(?), San Jerónimo de Juárez, Xochicalco style. Shell, red pigment; overall: 4.7 cm (1 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener, 1990.252.3

title:				Offering Group: Small 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: 4.7 cm (1 7/8 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

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PROVENANCE

	(Stendahl Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA, 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, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1966–1990
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1990–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Von Winning, Hasso, and Alfred Stendahl. <em>Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America: Text and Notes by Hasso Von Winning. Selection of Plates by Alfred Stendahl</em>. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1968.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 246, figs. 337 and 338
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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 (September 1992): 234–275.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 260, figs. 95 and 96; Reproduced: p. 273, figs. 95 and 96
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161367

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