id:			155575
accession number:	1990.276
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.276
updated:		2025-10-23 11:03:28.284000

Figural Vessel, c. 500–150 BCE. Mexico, Oaxaca, Zapotec. Earthenware; overall: 28.9 x 20.6 x 21.9 cm (11 3/8 x 8 1/8 x 8 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener, 1990.276

title:				Figural Vessel
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creation date:			c. 500–150 BCE
creation date earliest:		-500
creation date latest:		-150
current location:		233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region
creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener
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culture:	Mexico, Oaxaca, Zapotec
technique:	earthenware
department:	Art of the Americas
collection:	AA - Mesoamerica
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 28.9 x 20.6 x 21.9 cm (11 3/8 x 8 1/8 x 8 5/8 in.)
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PROVENANCE

	Benedict Crowell, Jr., Oaxaca MX, 1965, given 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

	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.<br>Published as: <em>Effigy Vessel</em>
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 270, no. 50
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25161367

	Bergh, Susan E. "'The Art of Those Who Lived Here Before the White Man Came': Collecting the Ancient Americas at the Cleveland Museum of Art." In <em>Collecting the “Other Americas”: Ancient Americas Collections in American Art Museums, </em>edited by Victoria I. Lyall, and Ellen Hoobler, 67- 82. Denver, Colorado: Mayer Center for Ancient and Latin American Art at the Denver Art Museum, 2025.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 76-77, fig. 15
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