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Collections

Cylinder Vessel with Supernatural Musicians500–700 CE

Not on view
Ceramic cylindrical vessel on three small feet, with worn blue-gray slip and terra-cotta red figural decoration depicting elaborately costumed figures with large headdresses

Unknown, Cylinder Vessel with Supernatural Musicians, 500–700 CE, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by Camilla Chandler Frost, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

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.