Collection Online as of March 31, 2023

Offering Group: Large Shell

c. 800–1200(?)

Part of a set. See all set records

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

Shell, red pigment

Overall: 12 cm (4 3/4 in.)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener 1990.252.2

Location

not on view

Provenance

(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. 96, 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).