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Guardian demon

14th century

Gilded bronze
3 1/4 x 2 x 1 7/8 in. (8.2 x 5.1 x 4.76 cm)
Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection
52.45
location
Now on view at the Asian Art Museum

Resources

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

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