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accession number: 1956.11
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Luxury Ewer Extending Good Fortune to the Owner, 1223. Inscribed by Ahmad al-Dhaki al-Mawsili (Iraqi, Mosul, active early 1200s?). Brass inlaid with silver; lid and base added later; diameter: 26.6 cm (10 1/2 in.); overall: 37.9 cm (14 15/16 in.); diameter of base: 14.5 cm (5 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1956.11
title: Luxury Ewer Extending Good Fortune to the Owner
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creation date: 1223
creation date earliest: 1223
creation date latest: 1223
current location: 116 Islamic
creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: Iraq, possibly Mosul, Zangid or Artugid Period, 13th Century
technique: brass inlaid with silver; lid and base added later
department: Islamic Art
collection: Islamic Art
type: Metalwork
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CREATORS
* Ahmad al-Dhaki al-Mawsili (Iraqi, Mosul, active early 1200s?) - inscription by
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measurements: Diameter: 26.6 cm (10 1/2 in.); Overall: 37.9 cm (14 15/16 in.); Diameter of base: 14.5 cm (5 11/16 in.)
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inscription: Band on the neck (naskh): "Work of Ahmad al-Thaki, the engraver, al-Mawsili, in the year 620 and glory to my owner"; band at the base of the handle (naskh): "Work of Ahmad al-Thaki al-Mawsili"; graffiti of later owners, roughly scratched into the neck of the ewer: "Husayn ibn Qasim"; "Usta al-Muhtasib [?]"; band on the shoulder of the ewer (plaited, animated kufic): "Good luck, and learning, and commanding respect, and prosperity, and pride, and generosity, and faithfulness, and affection, and glory, and survival, and justice, and blessings, and exaltedness, and prosperity, and everlasting peace, and charitable giving."; band on the foot (naskh) [foot is a later addition]; this inscription has not yet been deciphered.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: L'Orient de saladin
opening date: 2001-10-22T00:00:00
L'Orient de saladin. Institut du Monde Arabe, 75236 Paris Cedex 05, France (organizer) (October 22, 2001-March 10, 2002).
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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Arts of Islam. The Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, London (April 8-July 4, 1976).', 'opening_date': '1976-04-08T05:00:00Z'}
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PROVENANCE
(Raphaël Stora [1888–1963], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?-1956
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1956-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Rice, D. S. “Inlaid Brasses from the Workshop of Aḥmad Al-Dhakī Al-Mawṣilī.” Ars Orientalis, vol. 2, 1957, pp. 283–326.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pls. 1-2, 4-5, 15a, 15d, 16f-g; p. 287, figs. 1-2; p. 288, fig. 3; p. 289, fig. 4a-b; p. 290, figs. 5a-b; p. 291, fig. 6; p. 292, fig. 10; p. 294, figs. 11-14; p. 296, figs. 15-18; p. 297, figs. 19-20; p. 300, figs. 25a-c.
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4629040
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. 710
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n130
Milliken, William M. “Early Byzantine Silver.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 45, no. 3, 1958, pp. 35–94.
page number: Reproduced: p. 88.
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25142265
Shepherd, Dorothy G. “An Early Inlaid Brass Ewer from Mesopotamia.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 46, no. 1, 1959, pp. 2, 4–10.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 2, 4–10.
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142314
Vaughan, Malcolm. "Fine Mesopotamian Metalwork." The Connoisseur: an illustrated magazine for collectors, June 1959.
page number: Mentioned
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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
Scerrato, Umberto. Metalli Islamici. Milano: Fabbri, 1966.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 94–95, no. 40.
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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
Jones, Dalu, George Michell, Hayward Gallery, and World of Islam Festival Trust. The Arts of Islam: Hayward Gallery, 8 April-4 July 1976. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1976.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 195, pp. 178–179
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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
Shepherd, Dorothy G. “A Treasure from a Thirteenth-Century Spanish Tomb.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 65, no. 4, 1978, pp. 111–134.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 123, 133.
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159577
Zorzi, Alvise. Marco Polo: Venezia E l’Oriente. Milano: Electa, 1981.
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Ghulam, Yousif Mahmud. The Art of Arabic Calligraphy. 2nd ed. Lafayette, CA: Y.M. Ghulam, 1982
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced.
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Myers, Bernard S. Encyclopedia of World Art. Volume XVI. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983.
page number: Reproduced: fig. 93.
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Baer, Eva. Metalwork in Medieval Islamic Art. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 220, 235, and 240; figs. 182, 193, 197.
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Atil, Esin, W. T. Chase, and Paul Jett. Islamic Metalwork in the Freer Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C.: The Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1985.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 120–121, fig. 47.
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Ettinghausen, Richard, Oleg Grabar, and Sheila Blair. The Art and Architecture of Islam, 650-1250. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1987.
page number: Reproduced: p. 365
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Makariou, Sophie. L'orient de Saladin: l'art des Ayyoubides: exposition présentée à l'Institut du monde arabe, Paris, du 23 octobre 2001 au 10 mars 2002. [Paris]: Institut du monde arabe, 2001.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 113, p. 140.
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Kana'an, Ruba. "The Biography of a Thirteenth-century Brass Ewer from Mosul." In God Is Beautiful and Loves Beauty: The Object in Islamic Art and Culture, pp. 177-194. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; Qatar: in association with the Qatar Foundation, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar, 2013.
page number: Reproduced: p. 180, fig. 156.
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Blair, Sheila and Jonathan Bloom. God Is Beautiful and Loves Beauty: The Object in Islamic Art and Culture. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; Qatar: in association with the Qatar Foundation, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar, 2013.
page number: Reproduced: fig. 156, p. 180.
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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: Mentioned: p. 175.
url:
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