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Tripod Bowl

600–1000

Honduras, Ulúa Valley, 7th-10th century

Marble

Overall: 8.1 x 6.9 x 10.9 cm (3 3/16 x 2 11/16 x 4 5/16 in.)

Weight: 656.88 g

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener 1990.171

Location

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

Description

Between about 600 and 800, white marble vessels carved in dense relief on their outer surfaces were a form of luxury and wealth in the Ulúa region of Honduras. Two confronting profile zoomorphic heads occur on each side of this example, between three-dimensional handles shaped as bat heads. Originally the vessel may have been covered with stucco and brightly painted.

Provenance

?-1936

Payne Collection, Springfield, IL, 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, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Stone, Doris. Masters in Marble. [New Orleans]: Dept. of Middle American Research, Tulane University, 1938. p. 45

Young-Sánchez, Margaret. "The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 79, no. 7 (September 1992): 234-75. Reproduced: p. 236, fig. 93 www.jstor.org

Luke, Christina Marie. Ulúa Style Marble Vases. 2002. p. 333, fig. E.16- E.17

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 (February 4 - November 29, 1992).

On the Edge of the Maya World: Stone Vases from the Ulua Valley, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (February 23- May 31, 1993).

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