id: 141487 accession number: 1964.96 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.96 updated: 2025-02-09 03:09:53.005000 Woman and Water Buffalo Rhyton, 500–700. Sasanian, Iran, 600s or Turk Shahi dynasty, Kabul, Afghanistan, 500s. Silver, with mercury gilding and glass inlays; overall: 19.1 cm (7 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1964.96 title: Woman and Water Buffalo Rhyton title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 500–700 creation date earliest: 500 creation date latest: 700 current location: 102A Ancient Near East creditline: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Sasanian, Iran, 600s or Turk Shahi dynasty, Kabul, Afghanistan, 500s technique: silver, with mercury gilding and glass inlays department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art collection: Near Eastern Art type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 19.1 cm (7 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: ?? 50 ZWZN 3 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions opening date: 1966-09-10T04:00:00 Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-October 16, 1966). title: Masterpieces of 50 Centuries opening date: 1970-11-10T05:00:00 Masterpieces of 50 Centuries. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (November 10, 1970-February 15, 1971). 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: Consuming Passions: The Art of Food and Drink opening date: 1983-07-26T04:00:00 Consuming Passions: The Art of Food and Drink. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 26-October 9, 1983). 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 --- PROVENANCE Dr. Elie Borowski, Toronto, Ontario, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1964 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1964- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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 Cleveland Museum of Art, and Frank Chalton Francis. Fiftieth Anniversary Banquet: The Cleveland Museum of Art, the Sheraton-Cleveland Hotel, June 13, 1966. [Cleveland]: [The Museum], 1966. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 8-9 url: https://archive.org/details/50thAnniversary/page/n17 Cleveland Museum of Art, “Golden Anniversary Acquisition,” 1966, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr1432 Stechow, Wolfgang. "Cleveland's Golden Anniversary Acquisitions." Artnews 65, no. 5 (September 1966): 30-64.
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 page number: Reproduced: p. 35; Mentioned p. 63 url: 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: Cover, inside cover. Fig.3 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 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 Harper, Prudence Oliver. The Royal Hunter: Art of the Sasanian Empire. New York: Asia Society, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 68; mentioned: pl. 23, pp. 69-71 url: Harper, Prudence Oliver. The Royal Hunter: Art of the Sasanian Empire. New York: Asia Society, 1978. page number: pp. 69-71, no. 23. url: Brentjes, Burchard, and Karin Rührdanz. Mittelasien, Kunst des Islam. Leipzig: Seemann, VEB, 1979. page number: Pl. 115. url: Carter, Martha L. “An Indo-Iranian Silver Rhyton in the Cleveland Museum.” Artibus Asiae, vol. 41, no. 4, 1979, pp. 309–25. page number: url: https://doi.org/10.2307/3249540 Neils, Jenifer. “The Twain Shall Meet.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326–359. page number: Reproduced: p. 340, fig. 27 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159914 Cleveland Museum of Art. Masterpieces from East and West. New York, NY: Rizzoli International, 1992. page number: Discussed and reproduced p. 16. url: Châtelet, Albert, and Bernard Philippe Groslier. Histoire de l'art: peinture, sculpture, architecture, arts décoratifs. [Paris]: Larousse, 1998. page number: p. 611 url: Sugimura, Tō. Sekai bijutsu daizenshū = New history of world art. tōyō(17), tōyō(17). 1999. page number: p. 155, fig. 171 url: Louis, François. “The Hejiacun Rhyton and the Chinese Wine Horn (Gong): Intoxicating Rarities and Their Antiquarian History.” Artibus Asiae, vol. 67, no. 2, 2007, pp. 201–42. page number: Discussed p. 207. Fig. 9. url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25261880 Cleveland Museum of Art, David Franklin, and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. page number: pp. 60-1 url: Minardi, Michele. 2015. "A Silver Rhyton from Afghanistan Held in the Cleveland Museum of Art and Its Historical Context," Journal asiatique 303.1: 59-86. page number: 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: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 333, fig. 7.25 url: "Education." Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 59, no. 6 (November/December 2019): 24. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 24. 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: P. 54 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.96/1964.96_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.96/1964.96_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.96/1964.96_full.tif