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Collections

Cylinder Vessel with Maize God Dancers and Dwarfs650–850 CE

Not on view
Tall cylindrical Maya ceramic vessel with cream slip, painted in russet red with a band of glyphs near the rim and a narrative scene of costumed figures and hieroglyphs covering the body
Title
Cylinder Vessel with Maize God Dancers and Dwarfs
Culture
Maya
Place Made
Guatemala, Petén, possibly Naranjo or vicinity
Date Made
650–850 CE
Medium
Slip-painted ceramic
Dimensions
Overall (Diameter): 9 3/8 × 3 13/16 in. (23.81 × 9.68 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number
M.2010.115.495
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Art of the Ancient Americas
Selected Bibliography
  • 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.
  • Helmke, Christophe, and Felix Kupprat. "Los Glifos Emblema y Los Lugares Sobrenaturales: el Caso de Kanu'l y sus Implicaciones." Estudios de Cultura Maya 50 (2017): 95-135.
  • Looper, Matthew G. To Be Like Gods: Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009.
  • 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).
  • 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.