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Collection Online as of December 18, 2025
Ring-Base Vessel
c. 600–1000
Overall: 9.5 x 13.5 x 10.1 cm (3 3/4 x 5 5/16 x 4 in.)
Location: Not on view
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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.- ?-1936Payne Collection, Springfield, IL, 1936?, sold to James C. and Florence C. Gruener1936-1990James C. [1903-1990] and Florence C. [1908-1982] Gruener, Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art1990The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Stone, Doris. Masters in Marble. [New Orleans]: Dept. of Middle American Research, Tulane University, 1938. p. 27Von 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. 310Young-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.orgLuke, Christina Marie. Ulúa Style Marble Vases. 2002. p. 346, fig. E.30
- The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-November 29, 1992).Art of the Americas, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Oh (November 9, 1945 -January 6, 1946)
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