id: 155650 accession number: 1990.9 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.9 updated: 2022-01-04 17:09:16.690000 Carved Stone Vessel, 700-1000. Northwest Honduras, Ulúa Valley, 8th-10th century. Marble; overall: 27 x 30.3 x 17.4 cm (10 5/8 x 11 15/16 x 6 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1990.9 title: Carved Stone Vessel title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 700-1000 creation date earliest: 700 creation date latest: 1000 current location: 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Northwest Honduras, Ulúa Valley, 8th-10th century technique: marble department: Art of the Americas collection: AA - Mesoamerica type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 27 x 30.3 x 17.4 cm (10 5/8 x 11 15/16 x 6 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Notable Acquisitions opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Notable Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 15, 1991). title: Treasures of the New World opening date: 1992-09-15T04:00:00 Treasures of the New World. Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium (organizer) (September 15-December 25, 1992). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * On the Edge of the Maya World, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (February 23- May 31, 1992). --- PROVENANCE Emile Deletaille Antiquaire, Brussels Belgium, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -1990 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1990- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Carved in the round, the vessel's handles suggest a feline that emerges from a serpent-like head with an upturned snout. digital description: wall description: This stone vessel, made by eastern neighbors of the Maya, is one of the finest and largest of its kind. On the exterior are several motifs that combine to create an unusually complex design that features a grotesque head, either in profile or front-facing, with a leg near its mouth. In the main panel a frontal version of the head hovers over two legs, the knees pointed sharply outward. Beside each leg is a lively human, rarely seen in such works. Little is known about the motifs’ meanings or the vessel’s use. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Young-Sánchez, Margaret. "Notable Acquisitions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 3 (1991): 63-147. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 115 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161319 Schafer, Anne Louise. "On the Edge of the Maya World." Archaeology. vol. 45, no. 2. (March/ April, 1992). page number: p. 51 url: Deletaille, Emile, and Lin Deletaille. Trésors du nouveau monde. Bruxelles: Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire, 1992. page number: p. 246 url: May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: p. 96, no. 106, p. 220 url: Luke, Christina Marie. Ulúa Style Marble Vases. 2002. page number: p. 376, fig. E.58 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.9/1990.9_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.9/1990.9_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.9/1990.9_full.tif