id: 123985 accession number: 1944.485 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.485 updated: 2023-03-08 11:50:27.992000 The Wade Cup with Animated Script, 1200–1221. Iran, Seljuq period of Iran (1037–1194). Brass inlaid with silver; overall: 11.5 cm (4 1/2 in.); diameter: 16.1 cm (6 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1944.485 title: The Wade Cup with Animated Script title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1200–1221 creation date earliest: 1200 creation date latest: 1221 current location: 116 Islamic creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Iran, Seljuq period of Iran (1037–1194) technique: brass inlaid with silver department: Islamic Art collection: Islamic Art type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 11.5 cm (4 1/2 in.); Diameter: 16.1 cm (6 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Glory, and success, and government, and bliss, and soundness, and peace of mind, and mercy, and well-being, and good health, and duration, and increase, and satisfaction, and care, and continuance to its owner. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Islamic Art opening date: 1944-11-03T04:00:00 Islamic Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 3, 1944-February 2, 1945). 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: 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). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). title: Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation) opening date: 2021-05-21T04:00:00 Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (May 21, 2021-May 31, 2022). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1944 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1944- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This is known as the Wade Cup, after J. H. Wade who bequeathed the funds for its acquisition digital description: wall description: The highlight of the cup’s decoration is the inscription around the rim, which you see on the walls around you, with letters composed of human figures, animals, and birds. This is known as animated script and it developed in northeast Iran or Afghanistan during the mid-1100s and migrated westward. The inscription on the rim of the Wade Cup is the pinnacle of this form of script with its full-figure animation. The body of the cup is covered with interlacing bands of compartments containing tiny figures of humans and animals. These represent the 12 signs of the zodiac from astrology, the practice of interpreting the influence of planets and stars on earthly affairs. Astrology began in Mesopotamia, was adopted by the Greeks, and then absorbed into medieval Islamic culture through translations of Greek texts. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Rice, D. S. The Wade Cup in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Paris: Éditions du Chêne, 1955. page number: url: Ettinghausen, Richard. “The ‘Wade Cup’ in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Its Origin and Decorations.” Ars Orientalis, vol. 2, 1957, pp. 327–366. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 327–366 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4629041 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 708 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n129 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. 209 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n233 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. 209 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n233 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. 265 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n285 May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Mentioned: no. 73, p. 118; Reproduced: p. 70 url: Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. page number: Reproduced: pp. 102-103 url: Blair, Sheila. Text and Image in Medieval Persian Art. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014. page number: Mentioned: p. 107, note 65 url: Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned : P. 33, fig. 1.17 url: Schick, Irvin Cemil. "The Content of Form: Islamic Calligraphy between Text and Representation." In Sign and Design: Script as Image in a Cross-Cultural Perspective (300-1600 CE) (Symposium). Brigitte Bedos-Rezak, and Jeffrey F. Hamburger, eds., 173-194. Washington, D.C: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2016. page number: Reproduced: p. 177, fig. 9.2 url: Strong, Meghan E. “Art of the Islamic World.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61, no. 3 (Summer 2021): 28-30. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 30. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.485/1944.485_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.485/1944.485_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.485/1944.485_full.tif