Vessel with Depiction of Scribes650–800 CE

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Title: Vessel with Depiction of Scribes
Culture: Maya
Place Made: Guatemala or Mexico, Northern Peten or Southern Campeche
Date Made: 650–800 CE
Medium: Slip-painted ceramic
Dimensions: Diameter: 4 5/16 in. (10.95 cm) Height: 7 in. (17.78 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number: M.2010.115.9
Classification: Ceramics
Collecting Area: Art of the Ancient Americas
Selected Bibliography: Reents-Budet, Dorie, Sylvaine Boucher Le Landis, Yoly Palomo Carrillo, Ronald L. Bishop, and M. James Blackman. "Codex-style Ceramics: New Data Concerning Patterns of Production and Distribution," in XXIV Symposium of Archaeological Investigations in Guatemala. Guatemala City: Museo Nacional de Arqueología e Etnología, 2010.
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.

Not on view

Title: Vessel with Depiction of Scribes
Culture: Maya
Place Made: Guatemala or Mexico, Northern Peten or Southern Campeche
Date Made: 650–800 CE
Medium: Slip-painted ceramic
Dimensions: Diameter: 4 5/16 in. (10.95 cm) Height: 7 in. (17.78 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number: M.2010.115.9
Classification: Ceramics
Collecting Area: Art of the Ancient Americas
Selected Bibliography: Reents-Budet, Dorie, Sylvaine Boucher Le Landis, Yoly Palomo Carrillo, Ronald L. Bishop, and M. James Blackman. "Codex-style Ceramics: New Data Concerning Patterns of Production and Distribution," in XXIV Symposium of Archaeological Investigations in Guatemala. Guatemala City: Museo Nacional de Arqueología e Etnología, 2010.
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.