id: 155576
accession number: 1990.277
share license status: CC0
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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
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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
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culture: Mexico, Oaxaca, Zapotec
technique: earthenware
department: Art of the Americas
collection: AA - Mesoamerica
type: Sculpture
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CREATORS
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measurements: Overall: 26.1 x 16.3 x 16.3 cm (10 1/4 x 6 7/16 x 6 7/16 in.)
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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).
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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.
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PROVENANCE
(Stendahl Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA, 1973, sold to James C. and Florence C. Gruener)
date: ?-1973
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James C. [1903-1990] and Florence C. [1908-1982] Gruener, Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: 1973-1990
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
date: 1990
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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.
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RELATED WORKS
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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
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