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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2013.12
Title
Seated Lion
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
figurine, sculpture
Date
12th-13th century
Places
Creation Place: Middle East, Iran
Period
Seljuk-Atabeg period
Culture
Iranian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/337000

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Fritware, opaque turquoise glaze
Dimensions
40.6 x 17.8 x 33 cm (16 x 7 x 13 in.)
boxed: 46.7 x 48.9 x 33.7 cm (18 3/8 x 19 1/4 x 13 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edwin Binney, 3rd, California (by 1986), bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2012.


NOTE:
Stored at the San Diego Museum of Art from some time before 1986 until 1991, then at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from 1991-2011.



Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Edwin Binney, 3rd Collection of Turkish Art at the Harvard Art Museums
Accession Year
2013
Object Number
2013.12
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
A free-standing, three-dimensional feline, seated on a flat base, is here rendered in ceramic and covered in opaque turquoise glaze. With no under-or over-glaze painting, the features are suggested through relief modeling. The disproportionately large head is dominated overall by the bulbous nose, muzzle, and brow ridges, and is positioned to look straight ahead through protruding triangular eyes. Closed at the center, the mouth gaps open at the corners in a grimace. The lion's tail curls under and over its left haunch. The figure is hollow and shows no openings in its present state of conservation.

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