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Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Guardian naga (semidivine serpent)
Photo: Elizabeth Mann

Guardian naga (semidivine serpent)

Datemid-15th to mid 16th century
Label Text
Object number50.185.1
Photo CreditPhoto: Elizabeth Mann
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Feb. 8, 2020 - ongoing.Published References"Handbook, Seattle Art Museum: Selected Works from the Permanent Collections." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1951, p. 39 (b&w) Visser, H. F. E. "Naga Figures at Rotterdam, Amersterdam and Chicago," in Artibus Asiae, Vol. 19 No. 3/4 (1956), p. 374-375+377.
Credit LineThomas D. Stimson Memorial Collection
Dimensions2 1/4 x 1 1/8 x 1 1/2 in. (5.72 x 2.86 x 3.81 cm) Overall h.: 3 1/4 in.
MediumGilded copper alloy
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Nepalese
mid-15th to mid-16th century
Object number: 50.185.2
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ca. 14th century
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late 14th to early 15th century
Object number: 70.2
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ca. 1750-1850
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15th-16th century
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13th - 18th century
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Nepalese
late 19th to early 20th century
Object number: 33.704
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Chinese
15th-16th century
Object number: 33.819
Slide taken in galleries at Seattle Asian Art Museum
Chinese
15th-16th century
Object number: 33.820
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Chinese
14th century
Object number: 52.45
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Nepalese
14th century
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