id: 123985 accession number: 1944.485 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.485 updated: 2023-12-05 12:03:22.446000 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: digital description: wall description: --- 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