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Cylinder Vessel with Pedestal Base650–800 CE

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Mayan ceramic footed cup with cream slip, russet-orange painted glyph band near the rim, and a large curvilinear deity or serpent figure on the body, with traces of pale blue at the foot
Cylindrical Maya ceramic vessel on a flared foot, cream-colored with painted orange-brown glyphs forming a band near the rim, and a curvilinear zoomorphic figure below; pale blue pigment on the base.

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

Title
Cylinder Vessel with Pedestal Base
Culture
Maya
Place Made
Guatemala or Mexico, Northern Peten or Southern Campeche, possibly Los Alacranes
Date Made
650–800 CE
Medium
Slip-painted ceramic with post-fire stucco and pigment
Dimensions
Height: 6 5/8 in. (16.83 cm); Diameter: 5 in. (12.7 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number
M.2010.115.13
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Art of the Ancient Americas
Selected Bibliography
  • Herring, Adam. Art and Writing in the Maya Cities, A.D. 600-800: a Poetics of Line. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
  • Tokovinine, Alexandre. Place and Identity in Classic Maya Narratives. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2013.
  • Magaloni Kerpel, Diana, and Megan E. O'Neil, editors. The Science and Art of Maya Painted Ceramic Vessels: Contextualizing a Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022. https://www.archive.org/details/maya-painted-ceramic-vessels (accessed November 21, 2022).
  • 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.
Selected Exhibition History
  • The Ancient Maya World: Masterworks from the Permanent Collection. Saturday, December 1, 2012- Sunday, March 2, 2014

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