Plate with Skeletal Water Lily Serpent

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Plate with Skeletal Water Lily Serpent

Guatemala or Mexico, Northern Peten or Southern Campeche, Maya, 650–800 CE
Ceramics
Slip-painted ceramic
Diameter: 11 4/5 in. (29.972 cm); 11 4/5 x 11 4/5 x 2 in. (29.972 x 29.972 x 5.08 cm)
Purchased with funds provided by Camilla Chandler Frost (M.2010.115.235)
Art of the Ancient Americas
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Robicsek, Francis, and Donald M. Hales. The Maya Book of the Dead: The Ceramic Codex: The Corpus of Codex Style Ceramics of the Late Classic Period. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Art Museum, 1981.
  • Robicsek, Francis, and Donald M. Hales. The Maya Book of the Dead: The Ceramic Codex: The Corpus of Codex Style Ceramics of the Late Classic Period. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Art Museum, 1981.
  • O'Neil, Megan E. Forces of Nature: Ancient Maya Arts from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Beijing Shi: Wen wu chu ban she, 2018.
  • Magaloni, Diana, Davide Domenici, and Alyce de Carteret. We Live in Painting: the Nature of Color in Mesoamerican Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2024.
  • Reents-Budet, Dorie.  Painting the Maya Universe:  Royal Ceramics of the Classic Period.  Durham:  Duke University Press, 1994.
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