Runnin' round LACMA!

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Top of the Day: The Buddhist Deities Chakrasamvara and Vajravarahi, circa 15th century

Today's Artwork:

  • A Flowering Cactus: Heliocereus Speciosus - Pierre-Joseph Redouté, 1831 -- link --
  • The Buddhist Deities Chakrasamvara and Vajravarahi, circa 15th century -- link --
  • Tantric Feast - Unknown, circa 1790 -- link --
  • Prehistoric Painted Pottery Vessel - Unknown, circa 5000-4500 B.C. -- link --
  • Amulet of Soknopaios - Unknown, Ptolemaic Period (305 - 31 BCE) -- link --
  • Vaishnavi and Varahi Fighting Asuras (Recto), Kumari Fighting Asuras (Verso), Folio from a Devimahatmya (Glory of the Goddess) - Unknown, 1675-1700 -- link --
  • Kohl Tube - Unknown, about 800-500 BC -- link --
  • Pair of Man's Dress Wellington Boots - Unknown, circa 1845 -- link --
​Wow. We went back to the Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art and .... what a weird & wild bunch of thangs! 

Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Pink Roses in a Vase, 1838 -- link -- 

Faience Vessel with Procession of Four Bulls, ca. 775 - 653 BCE -- link -- 

You can peruse this use of Faience, which is glaze ceramic ware -- in particular tin-glazed earthenware -- link -- 

Théodore Deck Dish, ca. 1870 -- link -- 

Wall Tiles from the funerary apartments of King Djoser -- link -- 


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