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Collections

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
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.