About the Artwork
Support in Form of Lion Protome
late 12th - early 13th century
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Iranian
Islamic
Cast bronze
Height x Width x Diameter: 4 7/8 x 2 5/8 x 3/4 in. 12.5 x 6.7 x 2.0 cm
Metalwork
Islamic Art
Founders Society Purchase, Cleo and Lester Gruber Fund
1993.3.2
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Provenance
(Said Motamed, Frankfurt, Germany)
1993-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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James W. Allan, Nishapur: Metalwork of the Early Islamic Period, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982, pp. 53, 100, 101, nos. 173-175.
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Islamic, Iranian, Support in Form of Lion Protome, late 12th - early 13th century, Cast bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Cleo and Lester Gruber Fund, 1993.3.2.
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