LACMA

ShopMembershipMyLACMATickets
LACMA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
info@lacma.org
(323) 857-6000
Sign up to receive emails
Subscribe
© Museum Associates 2025

Museum Hours

Monday

11 am–6 pm

Tuesday

11 am–6 pm

Wednesday

Closed

Thursday

11 am–6 pm

Friday

11 am–8 pm

Saturday

10 am–7 pm

Sunday

10 am–7 pm

 

  • About LACMA
  • Jobs
  • Building LACMA
  • Host An Event
  • Unframed
  • Press
  • FAQs
  • Log in to MyLACMA
  • Privacy Policy
© Museum Associates 2025
Collections

Vessel with Image of Warriors600–900 CE

Not on view
Cylindrical Maya ceramic vessel with cream slip and black-line figural decoration showing profile figures in elaborate headdresses, with red-painted rim and base bands
Maya ceramic cylinder vessel with cream slip ground, painted in dark brown and red with two elaborately dressed figures in profile facing each other, wearing headdresses and holding objects, framed by horizontal red bands at rim and dark bands at base; fine-line painted technique with Maya hieroglyphs visible at right.
Ceramic Maya cylinder vessel with cream slip ground and red-painted rim band; painted narrative scene in dark brown shows a reclining supernatural figure with skeletal features, accompanied by glyphic elements and additional figures, enclosed between horizontal register bands.
Title
Vessel with Image of Warriors
Culture
Maya
Place Made
Guatemala or Mexico, Northeastern Petén or Southern Campeche region
Date Made
600–900 CE
Medium
Slip-painted ceramic
Dimensions
Diameter: 4 5/16 in. (10.95 cm) Height: 5 1/2 in. (13.97 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number
M.2010.115.265
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Art of the Ancient Americas
Selected Bibliography
  • 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.