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Collections

Unknown
Book of Omenscirca 1800

Not on view
Four small South Asian manuscript folios stacked vertically, each with handwritten script in black and red ink and a painted illustration: a boar, a white flame-like form, a dark crouching figure with red hair raising a blade, and a turtle

Unknown, Book of Omens, circa 1800, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Robert S. Coles, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Unknown
Title
Book of Omens
Place Made
Nepal
Date Made
circa 1800
Medium
Opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions
2 3/8 x 8 x 1/2 in. (6.03 x 20.32 x 1.27 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Robert S. Coles
Accession Number
M.82.169.16.1-.72
Classification
Books
Collecting Area
South and Southeast Asian Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Pal, Pratapaditya. Art of Nepal. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; University of California Press, 1985.