The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Offering Group: Vessel
c. 800–1200(?)
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.- Stendahl Galleries, Hollywood1966James and Florence Gruener, Cleveland(Stendahl Galleries, Hollywood); James and Florence Gruener, Cleveland, 1966
- 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. 95, p. 273, repr. p. 260.
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1990.252.1