Lion-mounted glass handle fragment
Lion-mounted glass handle fragment
Place of OriginIslamic, probably Egypt
Date11th-12th century
DimensionsH: 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm)
MediumGlass.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
2004.81
Not on View
DescriptionAn Islamic light green glass strap handle surmounted by the figure of a lion, its tail curled back to join the neck, a circular thumb rest below, with golden iridescence.
Published ReferencesChristie's, A Peaceable Kingdom: The Leo Mildenberg Collection of Ancient Animals, London, October 26, 2004, p.121, lot 181.
Zahlhaas, Gisela, Aus Noahs Arche: Tierbilder der Sammlung Mildenberg aus fünf Jahrtausenden, 1997, no. 53 (object A).
Whitehouse and Carboni, Glass of the Sultans, New York, 2001, p. 103, fig. 93; cf. ibid pp. 131-132, no. 48 (Berlin example).
Exhibition HistoryCleveland Museum of Art; Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington (IN); Toledo Museum of Art; J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu; and University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, Mainz: von Zabern Verlag, 1981-1983, I, nos. 43 and 44 respectively. (Arielle P. Kozloff)
Fourth century CE
425-350 BCE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
about 3rd-4th century CE
2nd-1st century B.C.E.
Mid-4th through early 3rd century BCE
Kajikawa Bunryusai
19th century
Late 17th century - early 18th century
Late 17th century - early 18th century
about 490 BCE
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