id:			151019
accession number:	1982.63
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.63
updated:		2023-12-06 00:20:10.104000

Demon in chains, c. 1453. Style of Muhammad Siya Qalam (Iranian). Opaque watercolor and gold on paper; image: 25.7 x 34.4 cm (10 1/8 x 13 9/16 in.); overall: 27 x 35.2 cm (10 5/8 x 13 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1982.63

title:				Demon in chains
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creation date:			c. 1453
creation date earliest:		1400
creation date latest:		1499
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Iran or Central Asia, Timurid or Turkoman Period
technique:	opaque watercolor and gold on paper
department:	Islamic Art
collection:	Islamic Art
type:		Manuscript
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CREATORS

* Muhammad Siya Qalam (Iranian)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 25.7 x 34.4 cm (10 1/8 x 13 9/16 in.); Overall: 27 x 35.2 cm (10 5/8 x 13 7/8 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).

	title:		The Twain Shall Meet
	opening date:   1985-10-30T05:00:00
	<i>The Twain Shall Meet</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>The House of Timur: Princely Arts in Fifteenth Century Iran and Central Asia</em>. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC (April 14-July 6, 1989); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, (August 13-November 5, 1989).

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PROVENANCE

	W. Schultz, Leipzig, Germany
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	Vignier, Paris, France
	date: before May 19,1982
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	(Sotheby's, New York, NY, Islamic Works of Art, May 19, 1982 sale, no. 4867Y, lot 114, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: May 19, 1982
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1982–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review for 1982.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 70, no. 1 (January 1983): pp. 3–55.
	page number: 	Reproduced: pp. 24, 52, no. 64
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159799

	Grube, Ernst J., and Eleanor Sims.<em> Between China and Iran: Paintings from Four Istanbul Albums: a Colloquy Held 23-26 June 1980</em>. [London]: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, 1985.
	page number: 	Reproduced: fig. 295
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	Neils, Jenifer. “The Twain Shall Meet.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326–359.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 358, cat. no. 43
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159914

	Blair, Sheila, Jonathan Bloom, and Richard Ettinghausen. T<em>he Art and Architecture of Islam 1250-1800</em>. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 1994.
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 82, p. 62
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	Gertsman, Elina and Barbara H. Rosenwein. <em>The Middle Ages in 50 Objects</em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 100-103; Reproduced: p. 101
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IMAGES

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