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Plate with Drinking Vessel650–800 CE

Not on view
Ceramic plate viewed from above, cream-colored with dark brown painted Mayan glyphs in a central rectangular cartouche and alternating glyph panels around the wide rim

Unknown, Plate with Drinking Vessel, 650–800 CE, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by Camilla Chandler Frost, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Plate with Drinking Vessel
Culture
Maya
Place Made
Guatemala, Northern Petén
Date Made
650–800 CE
Medium
Slip-painted ceramic
Dimensions
Diameter: 13 3/4 in. (34.93 cm) Height: 1 7/8 in. (4.76 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number
M.2010.115.6
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Art of the Ancient Americas
Selected Bibliography
  • Reents-Budet, Dorie. Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classic Period. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.
  • 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.