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Unknown
Tile with Lion14th century (?)

Not on view
Ceramic tile or plaque with a painted terracotta red field and central off-white rosette or wheel motif with eight segments, worn surface with a drilled hole at top

Unknown, Tile with Lion, 14th century (?) (alternate view), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Marilyn Walter Grounds, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Unknown
Title
Tile with Lion
Place Made
Sri Lanka, Padeniya
Date Made
14th century (?)
Medium
Terracotta with paint
Dimensions
10 3/4 x 5 x 7/8 in. (27.2 x 12.7 x 22.2 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Marilyn Walter Grounds
Accession Number
M.87.279.6
Classification
Architecture
Collecting Area
South and Southeast Asian Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Pal, Pratapaditya. Icons of Piety, Images of Whimsy: Asian Terra-cottas from the Walter Grounds Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.
  • Brown, Robert L., Tushara Bindu Gude, Donald Stadtner, and Lakshika Senarath Gamage. The Jeweled Isle: Art from Sri Lanka. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2018.