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Offering Group: Plaque with Frontal and Profile Faces
800-1200(?)
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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.
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- Title: Offering Group: Plaque with Frontal and Profile Faces
- Date Created: 800-1200(?)
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 7.9 x 6.3 x 0.7 cm (3 1/8 x 2 1/2 x 1/4 in.)
- Provenance: (Stendahl Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA, 1966, sold to James C. and Florence C. Gruener), James C. [1903-1990] and Florence C. [1908-1982] Gruener, Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Type: Sculpture
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.213
- Medium: jadeite with albitite
- Fun Fact: The red pigment may be cinnabar, the same mineral used to color Chinese lacquerware.
- Department: Art of the Americas
- Culture: Mexico, Guerrero(?), San Jerónimo de Juárez, Xochicalco style
- Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener
- Collection: AA - Mesoamerica
- Accession Number: 1990.213
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