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Offering Group: Plaque with Frontal and Profile Faces

800–1200(?)

Mexico, Guerrero, San Jerónimo de Juárez, Xochicalco style

(?)
jadeite with albitite
Overall: 7.9 x 6.3 x 0.7 cm (3 1/8 x 2 1/2 x 1/4 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener 1990.213
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

The red pigment may be cinnabar, the same mineral used to color Chinese lacquerware.

Description

This greenstone plaque is said to have been found inside a translucent stone vessel, together with two shells (1990.252.1–3). A similar offering was found in a pyramid ornamented with feathered serpents at Xochicalco, a site south of the Valley of Mexico.
  • ?-1966
    (Stendahl Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA, 1966, sold to James C. and Florence C. Gruener)
    1966-1990
    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
  • 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. 246, fig. 338
    Young-Sánchez, Margaret. "The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 79, no. 7 (1992): 234-75. Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 260 www.jstor.org
  • The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-November 29, 1992).
    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. 94, p. 273, repr. p. 260.
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