Twelve-sided Ewer with Sphinxes and Human-Headed Inscriptions
1300–1350
Maker Unknown
Islamic Art
Twelve-sided Ewer with Sphinxes and Human-Headed Inscriptions, 1300–1350. Iran, Khurasan, Ilkhanid period (1256–1353). Hammered sheet of brass inlaid with silver; overall: 44.8 cm (17 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1945.27 Calligraphy with human heads, known as animated script, developed in northeast Iran during the 1100s.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Metalwork
- Formatted Medium
- hammered sheet of brass inlaid with silver
- Dimensions
- Overall: 44.8 cm (17 5/8 in.)
- Departments
- Islamic Art
- Accession Number
- 1945.27
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- Islamic Art, For Modern America from the Ancient Near East, Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum, Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation)
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 116 Islamic
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