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 2026
  • About LACMA
  • Jobs
  • Building LACMA
  • Host An Event
  • Unframed
  • Press
  • FAQs
  • Log in to MyLACMA
  • Privacy Policy
© Museum Associates 2026
Collections

Modeled Head of a Nobleman600–900 CE

Not on view
Stone sculpture of a human head with traces of red pigment, broad facial features, and a headdress of large rounded forms, broken at top and base
Carved limestone Maya head with serene facial features, wearing an elaborate beaded headdress with rounded elements; traces of red pigment visible on the face; fragment broken at crown and neck.
Carved stone head with serene facial features and an elaborate rounded ushnisha crown of large globular curls, fragmentary at the top, pale beige stone against a dark brown background.

Unknown, Modeled Head of a Nobleman, 600–900 CE, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Constance McCormick Fearing, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Modeled Head of a Nobleman
Culture
Maya
Place Made
Mexico, Northern Lowlands?
Date Made
600–900 CE
Medium
Painted stucco
Dimensions
11 1/4 × 7 1/2 × 4 3/4 in. (28.58 × 19.05 × 12.07 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Constance McCormick Fearing
Accession Number
AC1998.209.53
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.

  • Selections from the Pre-Columbian Collection of Constance McCormick Fearing. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1967.

  • 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.