id: 126088 accession number: 1948.308 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.308 updated: 2020-10-21 09:00:20.582000 Feline incense burner, 1100s. Eastern Iran, western Afghanistan, or Turkmenistan, Khorasan. Copper alloy, cast and chased; 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: 1100s creation date earliest: 1100 creation date latest: 1196 current location: 116 Islamic creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: eastern Iran, western Afghanistan, or Turkmenistan, Khorasan technique: copper alloy, cast and chased 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: Qur'an sura al-jum'ah (The Friday Congregation) 62:9-10 (on neck and spine) translation: remark: inscription: translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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 (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Kunstschatze aus Iran. DIE WOCHE, Zurich, Switzerland (6/6/1962) . --- 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: The head of this lion could be removed to fill its body with hot coals and incense; the pierced walls enabled the scented smoke to disperse. Inscriptions around the lion's neck and along his spine are from the Koran (62:9–10) and read in part: "O believers, when proclamation is made for prayer on the Day of Congregation, hasten to God's remembrance and leave trafficking aside . . . then, when the prayer is finished, disperse through the land and seek God's bounty, and remember God frequently that you may prosper." --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Association française d'action artistique, and Roman Ghirshman. 1962. Sept mille ans d'art en Iran: Petit Palais, Octobre 1961-Janvier 1962 ; [exposition. [Paris]: [publisher not identified]. page number: Reproduced: p. 176, pl. CVIII url: Shepherd, Dorothy G. 1957. "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 University of Michigan. Museum of Art. 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, 1959. page number: Reproduced: p. 57 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: Grabar, Oleg. "The Visual Arts, 1050-1350." Cambridge History of Iran. 5 (1968): 626-658. Print. 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. 1970. Islamic arts. 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. Print. page number: Reproduced: fig. 41; Mentioned: p. 57 url: Kawatoko, Mutsuo, Clay Cuboid Incense Burners of the Islamic Period, Bulletin of the Research Center for Silk Roadology, 25, Nara, Research Center for Silk Roadology, 2006 page number: Reproduced: 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; Mentioned: p. 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: --- 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