Mirror with Addorsed Sphinxes
1200s
Maker Unknown
Islamic Art
Mirror with Addorsed Sphinxes, 1200s. Eastern Anatolia or Northern Mesopotamia, 12th-early 13th century. 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
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Metalwork
- Formatted Medium
- Cast bronze with relief decoration
- Medium
- cast, bronze, relief, decoration
- Dimensions
- 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.)
- Inscribed
- 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.
- Departments
- Islamic Art
- Accession Number
- 1995.402
- Credit Line
- Gift of Drs. Thomas and Martha Carter in Honor of Sherman E. Lee
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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