Cleveland Museum of Art

Offering Group: Plaque with Frontal and Profile Faces

Date

800–1200(?)

Medium

jadeite with albitite

Culture

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

Department

Art of the Americas

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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. The red pigment may be cinnabar, the same mineral used to color Chinese lacquerware.

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