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Lion-headed Stand
1150–1220
- Medium
- cast brass inlaid with silver
- Classification
- Metalwork
- Dimensions
- Overall: 14 cm (5 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Northern Iraq or Syria, Zengid or Ayyubid period
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Islamic Art
- Credit line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The four sections of this stand each terminate in a lion's head and the supporting legs end with a paw. The angular modeling of the lion's head contrasts with the delicate silver inlaid decoration.
