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Collections

Squared Vessel with Mythological Birth Scenes600–900 CE

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Title
Squared Vessel with Mythological Birth Scenes
Culture
Maya
Place Made
Date Made
600–900 CE
Medium
Slip-painted ceramic
Dimensions
10 × 4 1/4 × 4 1/4 in. (25.4 × 10.8 × 10.8 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number
M.2010.115.452
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.
  • Bassie-Sweet, Karen. Maya Sacred Geography and the Creator Deities. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008.
  • García Valgañón, Rocío. "Las Ancianas Mayas Prehispánicas en la Iconografía y las Fuentes Coloniales." Studia Europaea Gnesnensia, no. 15, 2017, pp. 95-127.

  • Houston, Stephen. The Gifted Passage: Young Men in Classic Maya Art and Text. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.
  • Taube, Karl A. "The Birth Vase: Natal Imagery in Ancient Maya Myth and Ritual." In The Maya Vase Book: a Corpus of Rollout Photographs of Maya Vases, edited by Justin Kerr, 650-685. New York: Kerr Associates, 1994.
  • Chinchilla Mazariegos, Oswaldo. Art and Myth of the Ancient Maya. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017.
  • 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).