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Tile with Bird-Headed Demons1479

Not on view
Ceramic relief plaque depicting two squat humanoid figures with large round sun-rayed heads, bulging dark eyes, and feathered chest decoration, in cream and ochre tones

Unknown, Tile with Bird-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 Bird-Headed Demons
Place Made
Burma (Myanmar), Pegu
Date Made
1479
Medium
Earthenware
Dimensions
18 x 13 x 2 in. (45.72 x 33.02 x 5.08 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Marilyn Walter Grounds
Accession Number
M.90.197.1b
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.