id: 155563 accession number: 1990.266 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.266 updated: 2022-01-04 17:08:54.408000 Pair of Standing Figures, c. 100 BC-AD 300. Mexico, Nayarit, Ixtlan del Rio Style. Earthenware with colored slips; overall: 52 x 32.5 x 19.5 cm (20 1/2 x 12 13/16 x 7 11/16 in.); part 2: 48 x 30.8 x 16 cm (18 7/8 x 12 1/8 x 6 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener 1990.266 title: Pair of Standing Figures title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 100 BC-AD 300 creation date earliest: -100 creation date latest: 300 current location: creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener copyright: --- culture: Mexico, Nayarit, Ixtlan del Rio Style technique: earthenware with colored slips department: Art of the Americas collection: AA - Mesoamerica type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 52 x 32.5 x 19.5 cm (20 1/2 x 12 13/16 x 7 11/16 in.); Part 2: 48 x 30.8 x 16 cm (18 7/8 x 12 1/8 x 6 5/16 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. 30, p. 269, repr. fig. 30, p. 244. --- PROVENANCE (Ramon Ramirez, Indio, CA, 1970, to James C. and Florence C. Gruener) date: ?-1970 footnotes: citations: James C. [1903-1990] and Florence C. [1908-1982] Gruener, Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1970-1990 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1990 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Nagarit ceramic sculputres, like those of Colima, were manufactured for burial with the dead. The popular male-female couples may be portraits of the individuals with whom they were buried. This female figure, dressed in a colorful skirt and hat, has painted or tattooed patterns on her torso and face. Jewelry adorns her face, ears, and nose. The vessel on her shoulder symbolizes her domestic duties. Like his female companion, this male figure is portrayed in all his finery. He carries spears, indicating that he is a hunter or warrior, and his confident grin conveys aggression and vitality. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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: p. 244; Mentioned: p. 245 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161367 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.266/1990.266_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.266/1990.266_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.266/1990.266_full.tif