id: 151019 accession number: 1982.63 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.63 updated: 2023-03-11 20:51:19.192000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1453 creation date earliest: 1400 creation date latest: 1499 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Iran or Central Asia, Timurid or Turkoman Period technique: opaque watercolor and gold on paper department: Islamic Art collection: Islamic Art type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Muhammad Siya Qalam (Iranian) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Year in Review for 1982 opening date: 1983-01-05T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1982. 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 The Twain Shall Meet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The House of Timur: Princely Arts in Fifteenth Century Iran and Central Asia. 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). --- PROVENANCE W. Schultz, Leipzig, Germany date: footnotes: citations: Vignier, Paris, France date: before May 19,1982 footnotes: citations: (Sotheby's, New York, NY, Islamic Works of Art, May 19, 1982 sale, no. 4867Y, lot 114) date: May 19, 1982 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1982– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This page once belonged to a miscellany from the library of the early Ottonian sultans. It depicts two people in nomadic garb leading a demon, or Persian div, in chains between them. The female figure holding the chain to her face is painted to look nearly as ferocious as the captured div. The concept of divs as evil supernatural creatures of mysterious origin dates to pre-Islamic Persia, but they are also described in the text of the Qur'an. Divs in Persian literature and folktales are sometimes captured and forced to use their magic to serve a king or hero. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review for 1982.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 70, no. 1, 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. Between China and Iran: Paintings from Four Istanbul Albums: a Colloquy Held 23-26 June 1980. [London]: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, 1985. page number: Reproduced: fig. 295 url: Neils, Jenifer. “The Twain Shall Meet.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 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. The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250-1800. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 1994. page number: Mentioned: no. 82, p. 62 url: Gertsman, Elina and Barbara H. Rosenwein. The Middle Ages in 50 Objects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. page number: Mentioned: p. 100-103; Reproduced: p. 101 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.63/1982.63_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.63/1982.63_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.63/1982.63_full.tif