id:			123458
accession number:	1943.68
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.68
updated:		2025-07-11 17:03:03.436000

Mule-Head Attachment for a Couch, 200–100 BCE. Greece, Hellenistic period. 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
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creation date:			200–100 BCE
creation date earliest:		-200
creation date latest:		-100
current location:		102C Greek
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Greece, Hellenistic period
technique:	bronze
department:	Greek and Roman Art
collection:	GR - Greek
type:		Sculpture
find spot:	Said by Jacob Hirsch to have been excavated at Kerch
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measurements: Overall: 20.4 x 18.3 cm (8 1/16 x 7 3/16 in.); with base: 25.4 cm (10 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		A Cleveland Bestiary
	opening date:   1981-10-15T04:00:00
	<i>A Cleveland Bestiary</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 15-December 16, 1981).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	M.J. (Joanny) Peytel (1844-1924), Paris, France
	date: before 1924
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	nephew of M.J. Peytel (Andre Peytel?), Paris, France, by bequest
	date: 1924-1939?
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	Dr. Jacob Hirsch, acquired from the above
	date: by 1939-1943
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1943-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Wunderlich, Silvia A. "A Bronze Mule's Head." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 30, no. 9 (1943).
	page number: 	pp. 137-39
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141086

	Hollis, Howard. "A Bronze Mule's Head." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>30, no. 9 (November 1943): 137-139
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 134; Mentioned: p. 137
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141086

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. 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. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. 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. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 27
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n47

	Kathman, Barbara A. <em>A Cleveland Bestiary</em>. Cleveland, OH; Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 58; Mentioned: p. 59, 63
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	Faust, Sabine.<em> Fulcra: figürlicher und ornamentaler Schmuck an antiken Betten</em>. Mainz: P. von Zabern, 1989.
	page number: 	Cat. No. 82, discussed p. 168, reproduced plate 51.
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 12
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n27

	Archie, Ellen. <em>Party Animals: Fulcrum Attachments, Bronze Couches, and the Ancient Drinking Party. </em>Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory (Accessed 4/2021).
	page number: 	
	url:		https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/84e0783e8277400cab6f987c0b772e47

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