id: 112862 accession number: 1931.453 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1931.453 updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:19.855000 Lion-headed Stand, 1150–1220. Northern Iraq or Syria, Zengid or Ayyubid period. Cast brass inlaid with silver; overall: 14 cm (5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1931.453 title: Lion-headed Stand title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1150–1220 creation date earliest: 1150 creation date latest: 1220 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: Northern Iraq or Syria, Zengid or Ayyubid period technique: cast brass inlaid with silver department: Islamic Art collection: Islamic Art type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 14 cm (5 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: For Modern America from the Ancient Near East opening date: 1948-02-24T05:00:00 For Modern America from the Ancient Near East. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-March 21, 1948). title: Persian Art Before and After the Mongol Conquest opening date: 1959-04-09T05:00:00 Persian Art Before and After the Mongol Conquest. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (organizer) (April 9-May 17, 1959). title: The Exhibition of Persian Art: 7000 Years of Art in Iran opening date: 1961-10-19T04:00:00 The Exhibition of Persian Art: 7000 Years of Art in Iran. Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (organizer) (October 19, 1961-January 31, 1962); Villa Hügel, Essen, Germany (February 16-April 24, 1962); Kunsthaus Zürich, CH-8024 Zürich, Switzerland (May 17-July 22, 1962); Gemeentemuseum den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands (September 4-November 18, 1962); MAK, the Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst/Gegenwartskunst, Vienna, Austria (January 16-March 31, 1963). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Paul Mallon [1884–1975], Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1931 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1931– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Hollis, Howard C. “A Seljuk Bronze Stand.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 21, no. 7 (July 1934): 107–109. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 107–109 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137634 Persian Art Before And After the Mongol Conquest.: [Exhibition] April 9-May 17, 1959. the University of Michigan, Museum of Art, Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Museum of Art, 1959. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 58, p. 32 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.453/1931.453_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.453/1931.453_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.453/1931.453_full.tif