id:			150988
accession number:	1982.42
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.42
updated:		2023-08-23 22:46:03.140000

Chair or Bed Leg with the God Bes, 1540–1296 BC. Egypt, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18. Tamarisk; overall: 44.7 x 5.9 cm (17 5/8 x 2 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Guerdon S. Holden Memorial Fund 1982.42

title:				Chair or Bed Leg with the God Bes
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creation date:			1540–1296 BC
creation date earliest:		-1540
creation date latest:		-1296
current location:		107 Egyptian
creditline:			Guerdon S. Holden Memorial Fund
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culture:	Egypt, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18
technique:	tamarisk
department:	Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
collection:	Egypt - New Kingdom
type:		Furniture and woodwork
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measurements: Overall: 44.7 x 5.9 cm (17 5/8 x 2 5/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Year in Review for 1982
	opening date:   1983-01-05T05:00:00
	<i>The Year in Review for 1982</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* CMA, 5 January-6 February 1983, The Year in Review for 1982, cat.: CMA Bulletin 70, no. 1 (January 1983), no. 3

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PROVENANCE

	Purchased from Nanette Kelekian, New York
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The genial god Bes appears here in the form of a furniture leg. With hands on his pot belly and wearing a short kilt with a long apron, he stands bowlegged on a truncated cone base. He has long, upward sweeping, diagonal eyebrows, large eyes, full cheeks, and rounded ears, and he wears a full beard and mustache. His body is soft and unmuscular. As a household god, Bes figured prominently as a decorative motif both in royal and private dwellings.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač.<em> Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 309; Mentioned: p. 308-309
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