id: 136826 accession number: 1961.32 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1961.32 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:50.291000 Feline-Handled Incense Burner, c. 100 CE. Burudjird(?), Parthian Empire (247 BCE–224 CE). Bronze, cast; overall: 11.6 x 30 cm (4 9/16 x 11 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1961.32 title: Feline-Handled Incense Burner title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 100 CE creation date earliest: 95 creation date latest: 105 current location: 102A Ancient Near East creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Burudjird(?), Parthian Empire (247 BCE–224 CE) technique: bronze, cast department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art collection: Near Eastern Art type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 11.6 x 30 cm (4 9/16 x 11 13/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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); Villa Hügel, Essen, Germany (February 16-April 24, 1962); Kunsthaus Zürich, CH-8024 Zürich, Switzerland (May 17-July 22, 1962); Gemeentemuseum den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands (September 4-November 18, 1962); MAK, the Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst/Gegenwartskunst, Vienna, Austria (January 16-March 31, 1963). title: Year in Review (1961) opening date: 1961-11-01T05:00:00 Year in Review (1961). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1-26, 1961). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Bahrami, Mehdi. “Courrier D'art De Téhéran: Encensoir De Bronze De L'époque Parthe.” Artibus Asiae, vol. 11, no. 4, 1948, pp. 288–292. page number: Mentioned: pp. 288-292; Reproduced: p. 289, figs. 1 and 2 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3248041 Ghirshman, Roman. Iran : From the Earliest times to the Islamic Conquest. Baltimore: Penguin, 1954. page number: Discussed p. 281, Reproduced pl. 38b url: Vanden Berghe, Louis, and Roman Ghirshman. Archéologie de l'Iran ancien. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1959. page number: Discussed p. 97, Reproduced Pl. 124b url: Musée du Petit Palais (Paris, France), and Roman Ghirshman. Sept Mille Ans D'art En Iran: [Exposition] Petit Palais, Octobre 1961 - Janvier 1962. [Paris]: Petit Palais, 1961. page number: no. 737, p. 125 url: Ghirshman, Roman. Iran: Parthians and Sassanians. [London]: Thames and Hudson, 1962. page number: p. 100, fig. 111. url: Kunstschätze aus Iran: Kunstschätze aus Iran von der prähistorischen bis zur Islamischen Zeit : Kunsthaus Zürich, 27. Mai bis 5. August 1962. Zürich: Das Kunsthaus, 1962. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 371, p. 98 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. “Annual Report for 1961.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 49, no. 6, 1962, pp. 115–45. page number: Referenced p.130-131 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25151899 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. 13 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n37 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. 13 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n35 Morant, Henry de, and Gérald Gassiot-Talabot. Histoire des arts décoratifs, des origines à nos jours. Suivie de Le design et les tendances actuelles. [Paris]: Hachette, 1970. page number: p. 131, rep. #215 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. 6 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n26 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 13 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n28 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.32/1961.32_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.32/1961.32_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.32/1961.32_full.tif