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Bottles with Molded Design of K’awiil and God L600–900 CE

Not on view
Ceramic canteen-shaped vessel with flattened disc body and short neck, covered in low-relief molded figures wearing elaborate headdresses and ornate garments, in unglazed peanut-tan clay
Ceramic vessel with rectangular body and small cylindrical neck, buff-tan clay surface decorated with incised Maya glyphs arranged in a grid of six blocks across two columns.
Ceramic flask with flat circular body and short narrow neck, buff-colored earthenware with molded low-relief decoration depicting Maya hieroglyphic glyphs and two elaborately dressed figures flanking a central column of glyphs.
Ceramic vessel with a square body and round neck, covered in molded Maya glyphic blocks arranged in a grid on the visible face, in matte tan clay with dark mottling.
Two ceramic flask-shaped vessels with flat circular bodies and small necks, one terracotta red and one buff-colored, each decorated with molded low-relief figural and glyphic imagery in a Mesoamerican style.
Title
Bottles with Molded Design of K’awiil and God L
Culture
Maya
Place Made
Guatemala or Honduras
Date Made
600–900 CE
Medium
Slip-painted ceramic with post-fire pigment
Dimensions
3 3/8 × 3 × 1 3/8 in. (8.57 × 7.62 × 3.49 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number
M.2010.115.794
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.
  • Houston, Stephen. The Gifted Passage: Young Men in Classic Maya Art and Text. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.
  • 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.