LACMA

ShopMembershipMyLACMATickets
LACMA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
info@lacma.org
(323) 857-6000
Sign up to receive emails
Subscribe
© Museum Associates 2025

Museum Hours

Monday

11 am–6 pm

Tuesday

11 am–6 pm

Wednesday

Closed

Thursday

11 am–6 pm

Friday

11 am–8 pm

Saturday

10 am–7 pm

Sunday

10 am–7 pm

 

  • About LACMA
  • Jobs
  • Building LACMA
  • Host An Event
  • Unframed
  • Press
  • FAQs
  • Log in to MyLACMA
  • Privacy Policy
© Museum Associates 2025
Collections

Carved Mirror Ornament200–800 CE

Not on view
Circular mosaic panel viewed from above, with a border of small honey-toned stone tiles surrounding a field of large irregular white and gray polygonal stone pieces set in sandy mortar
Circular ceramic disk with incised interlocking curvilinear patterns filled with red pigment against a dark gray ground, with a small suspension hole at the top.
Title
Carved Mirror Ornament
Place Made
Mexico, Gulf Coast, in the style of El Tajín
Date Made
200–800 CE
Medium
Slate, hematite, shell, and iron oxide pigment
Dimensions
Diameter: 7 9/16 in. (19.21 cm) Height: 3/4 in. (1.91 cm) Mount: 4 1/4 × 7 × 5 in. (10.8 × 17.78 × 12.7 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Art Museum Council
Accession Number
AC1998.89.1.1
Classification
Stone
Collecting Area
Art of the Ancient Americas
Selected Bibliography
  • 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.