id:			123981
accession number:	1944.481
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.481
updated:		2024-03-26 01:57:59.673000

Hitching Post, 1200s. Iran, possibly Hamadan. Limestone; overall: 62.9 x 65.8 cm (24 3/4 x 25 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1944.481

title:				Hitching Post
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creation date:			1200s
creation date earliest:		1200
creation date latest:		1299
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Iran, possibly Hamadan
technique:	limestone
department:	Islamic Art
collection:	Islamic Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 62.9 x 65.8 cm (24 3/4 x 25 7/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Islamic Art
	opening date:   1944-11-03T04:00:00
	<i>Islamic Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 3, 1944-February 2, 1945).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Six Thousand Years of Persian Art</em>. Iranian Institute, New York, NY (1940).', 'opening_date': '1940-01-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Raphaël Stora [1888–1963], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: by 1940-1944
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1944-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Ettinghausen, Richard. ""Six Thousand Years of Persian Art" the Exhibition of Iranian Art New York, 1940." <em>Ars Islamica</em> 7, no. 1 (1940): 106-17.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 117, fig. 23
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/4515558

	Ettinghausen, Richard. “‘Six Thousand Years of Persian Art’ the Exhibition of Iranian Art New York, 1940.” <em>Ars Islamica</em>, vol. 7, no. 1, 1940, pp. 106–117.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 117, fig. 23
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/4515558

	<em>Islamic Art: Selected Examples from the Loan Exhibition of Islamic Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 39
	url:		https://archive.org/details/IslamicArtCMA/page/n49

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 683
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n125

	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. 208
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n232

	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. 208
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n232

	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. 264
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n284

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