Cylinder Vessel with Supernatural Musicians500–700 CE

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Title: Cylinder Vessel with Supernatural Musicians
Culture: Maya
Place Made: Guatemala
Date Made: 500–700 CE
Period: Middle/Late Classic
Medium: Slip-painted ceramic with post-fire stucco and pigment
Dimensions: Overall (Diameter: 6 5/8 × 6 in. (16.83 × 15.24 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number: M.2010.115.21
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.
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 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.

Not on view

Title: Cylinder Vessel with Supernatural Musicians
Culture: Maya
Place Made: Guatemala
Date Made: 500–700 CE
Period: Middle/Late Classic
Medium: Slip-painted ceramic with post-fire stucco and pigment
Dimensions: Overall (Diameter: 6 5/8 × 6 in. (16.83 × 15.24 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number: M.2010.115.21
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.
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 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.