id: 155576 accession number: 1990.277 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.277 updated: 2022-01-04 17:08:57.859000 Urn Figure, c. AD 200-500 (Thermoluminescence date, 60 BC-AD 390). Mexico, Oaxaca, Zapotec. Earthenware; overall: 26.1 x 16.3 x 16.3 cm (10 1/4 x 6 7/16 x 6 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener 1990.277 title: Urn Figure title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. AD 200-500 (Thermoluminescence date, 60 BC-AD 390) creation date earliest: 200 creation date latest: 500 current location: 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener copyright: --- culture: Mexico, Oaxaca, Zapotec technique: earthenware department: Art of the Americas collection: AA - Mesoamerica type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 26.1 x 16.3 x 16.3 cm (10 1/4 x 6 7/16 x 6 7/16 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. 53, p. 270, repr. fig. 53, p. 250. --- PROVENANCE (Stendahl Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA, 1973, sold to James C. and Florence C. Gruener) date: ?-1973 footnotes: citations: James C. [1903-1990] and Florence C. [1908-1982] Gruener, Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1973-1990 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1990 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: The figure projecting from the front of a cylindrical container wears a mouth mask perhaps shaped as a serpent’s fanged upper jaw. It probably served in a tomb as a companion to a larger, more complex figural urn. Though termed "urns," these ceramics do not contain the cremated ashes of the dead but usually are found empty. --- 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 and Mentioned: p. 250 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161367 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.277/1990.277_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.277/1990.277_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.277/1990.277_full.tif