id: 141156 accession number: 1964.41 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.41 updated: 2025-02-09 03:08:07.566000 Horse-Shaped Drinking Vessel, 200–325 CE. Iran, Sasanian Empire (224–651 CE). Silver, partially gilt; overall: 12 x 10.8 x 32.7 cm (4 3/4 x 4 1/4 x 12 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1964.41 title: Horse-Shaped Drinking Vessel title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 200–325 CE creation date earliest: 200 creation date latest: 325 current location: 102A Ancient Near East creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Iran, Sasanian Empire (224–651 CE) technique: silver, partially gilt department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art collection: Near Eastern Art type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 12 x 10.8 x 32.7 cm (4 3/4 x 4 1/4 x 12 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review (1964) opening date: 1964-12-08T05:00:00 Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 1965). title: Juxtapositions opening date: 1965-09-11T04:00:00 Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965). 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: The Royal Hunter: Art of the Sasanian Empire opening date: 1978-01-12T05:00:00 The Royal Hunter: Art of the Sasanian Empire. Asia House Galleries (organizer) (January 12-March 11, 1978); The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (April 10-May 21, 1978); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 7-August 13, 1978). title: All That Glitters: Great Silver Vessels in Cleveland's Collection opening date: 1994-11-23T05:00:00 All That Glitters: Great Silver Vessels in Cleveland's Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 23, 1994-January 8, 1995). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': '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).', 'opening_date': '1961-10-19T04:00:00Z'} --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS de la Ferté, Etienne Coche. “Palma et Laurus. Un Monogramme et Un Objet d’art Paléochrétiens En Relation Avec Les Courses de l’hippodrome.” Jahrbuch Der Berliner Museen, vol. 3, 1961, pp. 134–47. page number: Reproduced fig. 11 url: https://doi.org/10.2307/4125632 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. 859, Pl. LXXXVI url: Ghirshman, Roman. Persian art: Parthian and Sassanian dynasties, 249 B.C.- A.D. 651. New York: Golden Press, 1962. page number: p. 220. Color plate no. 262 url: Ghirshman, Roman. “Notes Iraniennes XI. Le Rhyton En Iran.” Artibus Asiae, vol. 25, no. 1, 1962, pp. 57–80. page number: Figs. 29-30. url: https://doi.org/10.2307/3249165 The Cleveland Museum of Art. “Year in Review for 1964.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 51, no. 10, 1964, pp. 236–66. page number: Listed and reproduced no. 152. url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152021. 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. 14 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n38 Shepherd, Dorothy G., and Joseph Ternbach. “Two Silver Rhyta.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 53, no. 8, 1966, pp. 289–317. page number: Reproduced fig. 6, 8 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152114 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. 14 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n36 Ghirshman, Roman. “La selle en Iran,” Iranica Antiqua IX, Leiden: E.J. Brill. 1972, pp. 94-107. page number: Discussed p. 106. Pl. LI url: Gibbons, D.F., K.C. Ruhl and L.S. Staikoff, "Analysis of Sasanian Silver Objects: A Comparison of Techniques" Archaeological Chemistry. June 1, 1974 , 11-21. page number: url: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ba-1974-0138.ch002 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. 7 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n27 Harper, Prudence Oliver. The Royal Hunter: Art of the Sasanian Empire. New York: Asia Society, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 28; mentioned: pl.1, pp. 29,30 url: Merhav, Rivka. A Glimpse into the Past: The Joseph Ternbach Collection. Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1981. page number: p. 12-13, illust. url: Herrmann, Georgina, et al. "Parthian and Sasanian Saddlery: New Light from the Roman West." Archaeologia Iranica et Orientalis: Miscellanea in Honorem Louis Vanden Berghe. Belgium, Macmillan, 1989. p 757-809. page number: Discussed p. 767 Pl. VI, VII. url: Vanden Berghe, Louis. Hofkunst van de Sassanieden: het Perzische rijk tussen Rome en China (224-642) ; 12 februari tot 25 april 1993. Brussels: Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, 1993. page number: p. 107, Pl. 94 url: Kosmin, Paul. "Banqueting on the Move." In Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings.Susanne Ebbinghaus,ed., 310-341. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Art Museums, 2018. page number: Reproduced: p. 324, fig. 7.18 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.41/1964.41_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.41/1964.41_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.41/1964.41_full.tif