Collection Online as of January 17, 2022

Offering Group: Vessel

c. 800-1200(?)

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Mexico, Guerrero(?), San Jerónimo de Juárez, Xochicalco style

Travertine or tecali

Diameter: 18.8 x 18.4 cm (7 3/8 x 7 1/4 in.); Overall: 18.9 cm (7 7/16 in.)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener 1990.252.1

Location

not on view

Description

The objects in this group, all with traces of red pigment, are said to have been found together, the shells and greenstone plaque inside the translucent stone vessel. A similar offering was found in a pyramid ornamented with feathered serpents at Xochicalco, a site south of the Valley of Mexico.

Provenance

Stendahl Galleries, Hollywood

1966

James and Florence Gruener, Cleveland

(Stendahl Galleries, Hollywood); James and Florence Gruener, Cleveland, 1966

Citations

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

Exhibition history

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. 95, p. 273, repr. p. 260.

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