id: 126088 accession number: 1948.308 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.308 updated: 2025-02-09 01:22:02.353000 Feline Incense Burner, 1150–1200. Iran, Khurasan, Seljuq period of Iran (1037–1194). Copper alloy, cast, engraved, chased, and pierced; overall: 35.5 x 11 x 32.5 cm (14 x 4 5/16 x 12 13/16 in.); head: 17.8 x 9.5 x 12.5 cm (7 x 3 3/4 x 4 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1948.308 title: Feline Incense Burner title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1150–1200 creation date earliest: 1150 creation date latest: 1200 current location: 116 Islamic creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Iran, Khurasan, Seljuq period of Iran (1037–1194) technique: Copper alloy, cast, engraved, chased, and pierced department: Islamic Art collection: Islamic Art type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 35.5 x 11 x 32.5 cm (14 x 4 5/16 x 12 13/16 in.); Head: 17.8 x 9.5 x 12.5 cm (7 x 3 3/4 x 4 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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: Islam and the Medieval West opening date: 1975-04-06T04:00:00 Islam and the Medieval West. University Art Museum, Binghamton, NY, Binghamton, NY (organizer) (April 6-May 4, 1975). title: Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture opening date: 1975-09-24T04:00:00 Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975). 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 * {'description': 'Kunstschatze aus Iran. DIE WOCHE, Zurich, Switzerland (6/6/1962).', 'opening_date': '1962-06-06T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1948 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1948- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS “Part II. Annual Report Issue for the Year 1948.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 36, no. 6, 1949, pp. 111–142. page number: Mentioned: p. 117 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25141566 Shepherd, Dorothy G. "A Lion Incense Burner of the Seljuk Period". The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 44 (6): 115-118. page number: Reproduced: cover & p. 117; Mentioned: p. 115-118 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25142215 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. 707 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n129 Persian Art Before And After the Mongol Conquest.: [Exhibition] April 9-May 17, 1959. the University of Michigan, Museum of Art, Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Museum of Art, 1959. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 46, p. 30; Reproduced: p. 57 url: Ghirshman, Roman. Sept mille ans d'art en Iran: Petit Palais, Octobre 1961-Janvier 1962. Paris: Association francaise d’action artistique, 1961. page number: Reproduced: p. 176, pl. CVIII url: Kühnel, Ernst. Islamische Kleinkunst: ein Handbuch für Sammler und Liebhaber. Braunschweig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1963. page number: Reproduced ill no. 127; Mentioned: p 166-167 url: 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. 208 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n232 Educational Research Council of Greater Cleveland, The Human Adventure, III: Medieval Civilization. Grade 5, Vol. 3 (1st edition, 1965-1966) page number: Reproduced: p. 71 url: Melikian-Chirvani, Assadullah Souren. Le griffon iranien de Pise Matériaux pour un corpus de l'argenterie et du bronze iraniens III. Wiesbaden: [s.n.], 1968. page number: Reproduced: p. 72; Mentioned: p. 71-73 url: Grabar, Oleg. "The Visual Arts, 1050-1350." Cambridge History of Iran. 5 (1968): 626-658. page number: Reproduced: pl 11; Mentioned: p. 645 url: 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. 208 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n232 Kühnel, Ernst and Katherine Watson, translator. Islamic Arts. London: Bell, 1970. page number: Reproduced: fig.127; Mentioned: p. 161 url: 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. 264 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n284 Zorzi, Alvise. Marco Polo: Venezia E L'oriente. Milano: Electa, 1981. page number: Reproduced: p. 114; Mentioned: p 118p. url: Baer, Eva. Metalwork in Medieval Islamic Art. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1983. page number: Reproduced: fig. 41; Mentioned: p. 57 url: Isurāmu jidai no dosei hakogata kōro [イスラーム時代の土製箱型香炉 = Clay cuboid incense burners of the Islamic period]. Nara-shi: Shiruku Rōdo-gaku Kenkyū Sentā, 2006. page number: Reproduced: p. 101 url: "Clay Cuboid Incense Burners of the Islamic Period," Bulletin of the Research Center for Silk Roadology 25 (2009) 101. page number: p. 101 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: P. 132, fig. 4.2; Mentioned: P. 33, 133 url: Gertsman, Elina and Barbara H. Rosenwein. The Middle Ages in 50 Objects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. page number: Mentioned: p. 22-25; Reproduced: p. 23 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 226–227 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.308/1948.308_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.308/1948.308_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.308/1948.308_full.tif