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Tile with Animal-Headed Demons1479

Not on view
Turquoise-glazed ceramic relief plaque with two hybrid animal-human figures in dynamic poses against a rough cream-colored ground

Unknown, Tile with Animal-Headed Demons, 1479, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Marilyn Walter Grounds, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Unknown
Title
Tile with Animal-Headed Demons
Place Made
Burma (Myanmar), Pegu
Date Made
1479
Medium
Earthenware with partial green glaze
Dimensions
16 1/2 x 12 x 2 in. (41.91 x 30.48 x 5.08 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Marilyn Walter Grounds
Accession Number
M.90.197.1a
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.
  • "Mara's Demons in Pegu." Asian Art Newspaper 26, no. 4 (2023): 8-9.