Plate with Skeletal Water Lily Serpent650–800 CE

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Title: Plate with Skeletal Water Lily Serpent
Culture: Maya
Place Made: Guatemala or Mexico, Northern Peten or Southern Campeche
Date Made: 650–800 CE
Medium: Slip-painted ceramic
Dimensions: Diameter: 11 4/5 in. (29.972 cm); 11 4/5 x 11 4/5 x 2 in. (29.972 x 29.972 x 5.08 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number: M.2010.115.235
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.
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: Plate with Skeletal Water Lily Serpent
Culture: Maya
Place Made: Guatemala or Mexico, Northern Peten or Southern Campeche
Date Made: 650–800 CE
Medium: Slip-painted ceramic
Dimensions: Diameter: 11 4/5 in. (29.972 cm); 11 4/5 x 11 4/5 x 2 in. (29.972 x 29.972 x 5.08 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number: M.2010.115.235
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.
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.