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Curved roof-end tile with design of Buddhist heavenly being


천인상암막새, 天人像平瓦當
Korean
Unified Silla period
8th–9th century A.D.
Object Place: Korea

Medium/Technique Earthenware with impressed decoration
Dimensions Length: 17.8 cm (7.0 in.), Width: 6.8 cm (2 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Robert T. Paine, Jr.
Accession Number32.84
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsCeramicsPotteryEarthenware

ProvenanceBy 1932, Robert Treat Paine Jr. (b. 1866 - d. 1951), Cambridge; 1932, gift of Paine to the MFA (Accession Date: April 7, 1932).