id: 123458 accession number: 1943.68 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.68 updated: 2023-01-10 22:12:46.506000 Mule-Head Attachment for a Couch, 200–100 BC. Greece, Hellenistic period, 2nd Century BC. Bronze; overall: 20.4 x 18.3 cm (8 1/16 x 7 3/16 in.); with base: 25.4 cm (10 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1943.68 title: Mule-Head Attachment for a Couch title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 200–100 BC creation date earliest: -200 creation date latest: -100 current location: 102C Greek creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Greece, Hellenistic period, 2nd Century BC technique: bronze department: Greek and Roman Art collection: GR - Greek type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 20.4 x 18.3 cm (8 1/16 x 7 3/16 in.); with base: 25.4 cm (10 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: A Cleveland Bestiary opening date: 1981-10-14T04:00:00 A Cleveland Bestiary. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 14-December 16, 1981). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE M. J. Peytel, Paris date: footnotes: citations: nephew of M. J. Peytel date: footnotes: citations: Dr. Jacob Hirsch date: footnotes: citations: M. J. Peytel, Paris; nephew of M. J. Peytel; Dr. Jacob Hirsch date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Excavated at Kerch, Russia --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Wunderlich, Silvia A. "A Bronze Mule's Head." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 30, no. 9 (1943). page number: pp. 137-39 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141086 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 23 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n47 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 23 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n45 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 27 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n47 Kathman, Barbara A. A Cleveland Bestiary. Cleveland, OH; Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. page number: Reproduced: p. 58; Mentioned: p. 59, 63 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 12 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n27 Archie, Ellen. Party Animals: Fulcrum Attachments, Bronze Couches, and the Ancient Drinking Party. Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory (Accessed 4/2021). page number: url: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/84e0783e8277400cab6f987c0b772e47 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.68/1943.68_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.68/1943.68_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.68/1943.68_full.tif