id:			155560
accession number:	1990.264
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.264
updated:		2023-03-14 12:01:42.563000

Pair of Ear Ornaments, 150–200. Central Mexico, Teotihuacán style, Classic Period. Jadeite-albitite(?); diameter: 5.6 cm (2 3/16 in.); overall: 2.4 cm (15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener 1990.264

title:				Pair of Ear Ornaments
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creation date:			150–200
creation date earliest:		150
creation date latest:		200
current location:		233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region
creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener
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culture:	Central Mexico, Teotihuacán style, Classic Period
technique:	jadeite-albitite(?)
department:	Art of the Americas
collection:	AA - Mesoamerica
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Diameter: 5.6 cm (2 3/16 in.); Overall: 2.4 cm (15/16 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

	Valetta Swan, 1965, 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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wall description:
Near Teotihuacán's largest palace is a small temple gorgeously ornamented with green-feathered serpents, symbols of the earth's fertility. Beneath the temple lie at least 120 human sacrifices, most men, many warriors, and some wearing greenstone ornaments like these, perhaps a set. The sacrifices, apparently laid out to mark the cardinal directions, may have consecrated the temple or a ruler's tomb, or both.
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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. 255
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161367

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