Black and white photo of a building decoration depicting a mythical lion

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Accession Nr.: F.2025.47.21.
Type: photograph
Artist/Maker:
Date of production:
1959
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Materials: paper
Techniques: black and white
Dimensions: height: 11.7 cm
width: 8.6 cm
Black and white photograph of a carved stone building decoration depicting a mythical lion, from the exhibition of the Hanoi History Museum. The lion, decorated with ornamental elements, holds a striped ball in its mouth, the object dates from the 13th to the 15th centuries. Similar images: Imre Patkó - Miklós Rév: The Art of Vietnam. Budapest, Corvina Publishing House, 1967.