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Mar 9, 2011

Ring-Base Vessel

c. 600–1000

Honduras, Maya, Ulúa Valley, 7th-10th Century

Marble

Overall: 9.5 x 13.5 x 10.1 cm (3 3/4 x 5 5/16 x 4 in.)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener 1990.170

Location

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One of two vessels that were the first ancient American artworks collected by James and Florence Gruener.

Description

The Ulúa region of Honduras, to the east of Maya territory, is best known for white marble vessels with walls ornamented in low relief and handles carved as animal heads, here bats but also felines, birds, monkeys, and others. This small example is distinguished by the crispness of its carved scrolls and the triangular cutouts of its pedestal base.

Provenance

?-1936

Payne Collection, Springfield, IL, 1936?, sold to James C. and Florence C. Gruener

1936-1990

James C. [1903-1990] and Florence C. [1908-1982] Gruener, Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1990

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Citations

Stone, Doris. Masters in Marble. [New Orleans]: Dept. of Middle American Research, Tulane University, 1938. p. 27

Von Winning, Hasso, and Alfred Stendahl. Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America: Text and Notes by Hasso Von Winning. Selection of Plates by Alfred Stendahl. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1968. p. 310

Young-Sánchez, Margaret. "The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 79, no. 7 (1992): 234-75. Referenced: cat. no. 92, p. 272, Reproduced: fig. 92, p. 258 www.jstor.org

Luke, Christina Marie. Ulúa Style Marble Vases. 2002. p. 346, fig. E.30

Exhibition history

Art of the Americas, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Oh (November 9, 1945 -January 6, 1946)

The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-November 29, 1992).

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