id: 159220 accession number: 1995.402 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.402 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:29.288000 Mirror with Addorsed Sphinxes, 1200s. Eastern Anatolia or Northern Mesopotamia. Cast bronze with relief decoration; diameter: 10.6 cm (4 3/16 in.); overall: 0.9 x 0.3 cm (3/8 x 1/8 in.); rim: 0.4 cm (3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Drs. Thomas and Martha Carter in Honor of Sherman E. Lee 1995.402 title: Mirror with Addorsed Sphinxes title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1200s creation date earliest: 1200 creation date latest: 1299 current location: creditline: Gift of Drs. Thomas and Martha Carter in Honor of Sherman E. Lee copyright: --- culture: Eastern Anatolia or Northern Mesopotamia technique: Cast bronze with relief decoration department: Islamic Art collection: Islamic Art type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Diameter: 10.6 cm (4 3/16 in.); Overall: 0.9 x 0.3 cm (3/8 x 1/8 in.); Rim: 0.4 cm (3/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Arabic inscription in degenerate floriated angular script around rim. Inscription is poorly written, but is identical to that on mirrors in Kuwait al-Sabah Collection (LNS102M) and Musée des Arts Decoratifs (14918). Translation (from M. Jenkins, "The al-Sabah Collection," 1983, p. 69): Glory and continence and good fortune and splendor and high position and praise and happiness and nobility and power and increase and potency and blessings to its owner forever. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Thomas and Martha Carter, Madison, WI, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?–1995 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1995– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland, OH; New Haven, CT: The Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015. page number: Reproduced: P. 151, fig. 4.23; Mentioned: P. 33, 151 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.402/1995.402_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.402/1995.402_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.402/1995.402_full.tif