File:Iran, probably Hamadan, Ilkhanid period - Balustrade Fragment with Animals - 1938.15 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif
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Balustrade Fragment with Animals
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Balustrade Fragment with Animals |
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| Object type | sculpture | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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This architectural relief shows a lion attacking a bull surrounded by other predators pursuing their prey, with scrolling vegetal motifs filling the spaces between. Scenes of powerful predators in the act of hunting and capturing other animals echo the royal imagery of pre-Islamic Iran. This piece was part of a balustrade in a private home; the owner and construction date are known from another fragment from the same building. The building was embellished when the Mongols controlled Iran, and the relief shows a continuity in style from carvings made during the preceding Turkic Seljuk period (1037–1194). Under Turkic and Mongol rule in Iran, Islamic injunctions against making figural imagery were loosened. |
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| Date | between 1303 and 1304 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Limestone | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Overall: 66.7 x 83.8 x 10.6 cm (26 1/4 x 33 x 4 3/16 in.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Islamic Art |
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1938.15 |
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| Place of creation | Iran, probably Hamadan, Ilkhanid period (1256-1353) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/1938.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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