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
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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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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
	<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

* 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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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.
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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. 250
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161367

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