Guardian demon

Date14th century

Maker Chinese

Object number52.45

Exhibition HistoryThe Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio and the Asia Society, Asia House Gallery, New York City, "Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368)," 1968 Portland, Oregon, Portland Art Museum, "Gift to a City: Masterworks from the Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection in the Seattle Art Museum", 1965, cat. # 37 Los Angeles County Museum, "Arts of the T'ang Dynasty," 1957 San Francisco Museum of Art, "Art in Asia and the West," 1957 Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Chinese Art: A Seattle Perspective, Dec. 22, 2007 - July 26, 2009. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Feb. 8, 2020 - ongoing. Published ReferencesLee, Sherman E. and Wai-kam Ho, "Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yuan Dynasty, 1279-1368," Cleveland Museum of Art cat., (1968), no. 22, p. 6 Munsterberg, Hugo. "Chinese Buddhist Bronzes," 1967, pl. 126, p. 131 "Gift to a City" exhibition catalogue. Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 1965, cat. no. 37 Trubner, Henry. "The Arts of the T'ang Dynasty," in Ars Orientalis, Vol. 3 (1959), pp. 147-152, pl. 1, fig 2 "Arts of the T'ang Dynasty," Los Angeles County Museum cat., (1957), p. 64 (126) "Art in Asia and the West," 1957, San Francisco Museum of Art cat., p. 33

Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection

Dimensions3 1/4 x 2 x 1 7/8 in. (8.2 x 5.1 x 4.76 cm)

MediumGilded bronze