Offering Group (c. 800–1200(?)): Art, History and Details

Offering Group (c. 800–1200(?)) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Offering Group
• Date: c. 800–1200(?)
• Culture: Mexico, Guerrero(?), San Jerónimo de Juárez, Xochicalco style
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: travertine or tecali
• Dimensions: Diameter: 18.8 x 18.4 cm (7 3/8 x 7 1/4 in.); Overall: 18.9 cm (7 7/16 in.); Part 2: 12 cm (4 3/4 in.); Part 3: 4.7 cm (1 7/8 in.)
• Collection: AA - Mesoamerica
• Department: Art of the Americas
• Accession number: 1990.252

Collection credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener

Further reading listed by the museum

• 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.
• Young-Sánchez, Margaret. "The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 79, no. 7 (September 1992): 234–275.

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