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Codex-Style Plate with K'awiil650–800 CE

Not on view
Ceramic plate seen from above, with cream slip interior painted in dark brown with a profile figure wearing an elaborate feathered headdress and a looping serpent, terracotta-red rim
Title
Codex-Style Plate with K'awiil
Culture
Maya
Place Made
Date Made
650–800 CE
Medium
Slip-painted ceramic
Dimensions
Diameter: 8 3/10 in. (21.082 cm); 1 4/5 x 8 3/10 x 1 in. (4.572 x 21.082 x 2.54 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number
M.2010.115.396
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Art of the Ancient Americas
Selected Bibliography
  • Reents-Budet, Dorie, Sylvaine Boucher Le Landis, Yoly Palomo Carrillo, Ronald L. Bishop, and M. James Blackman. "Codex-style Ceramics: New Data Concerning Patterns of Production and Distribution," in XXIV Symposium of Archaeological Investigations in Guatemala. Guatemala City: Museo Nacional de Arqueología e Etnología, 2010.
  • 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.