Codex-Style Bowl with Avian Maize God650–800 CE

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Pre-Columbian ceramic bowl with brick-red rim and base, wide cream-colored body painted with dark brown Maya figural and scrollwork decoration

Title: Codex-Style Bowl with Avian Maize God
Culture: Maya
Place Made
Date Made: 650–800 CE
Medium: Slip-painted ceramic
Dimensions: Overall (Diameter): 2 1/2 × 6 13/16 in. (6.35 × 17.3 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number: M.2010.115.461
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.
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).
Blondet, Jose Luis, editor. Magdalena Suarez Frimkess: The Finest Disregard. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2024.

Codex-Style Bowl with Avian Maize God650–800 CE

Not on view

Title: Codex-Style Bowl with Avian Maize God
Culture: Maya
Place Made
Date Made: 650–800 CE
Medium: Slip-painted ceramic
Dimensions: Overall (Diameter): 2 1/2 × 6 13/16 in. (6.35 × 17.3 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number: M.2010.115.461
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.
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).
Blondet, Jose Luis, editor. Magdalena Suarez Frimkess: The Finest Disregard. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2024.