Handle from a vessel in the form of a jumping feline above an ibex head (fragment)

Object Details

• Description

  Fragment: a handle from a vessel in the form of a jumping feline above an ibex head; one part of rim attachment broken off.

  Surface: green and brown patina and yellow earth incrustation.

• Provenance

  To 1909

  Maurice Nahman (1868-1948), Cairo, Egypt, to 1909 [1]

  From 1909 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Maurice Nahman in 1909 [2]

  From 1920

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 81, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

  [2] See note 1.

  [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Ancient Near Eastern Metalware (December 18, 1984 to February 24, 1986)

  Pre-Islamic Metalwork from the Near East (April 15, 1983 to April 4, 1984)

  Near Eastern Art (January 1, 1963 to August 18, 1967)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Maurice Nahman (1868-1948) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Iran

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  BCE 0s, 100s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Nahman, Maurice

• Topic

  Bronze, Parthian period (247 BCE - 224 CE), Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Sculpture, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Ibex, Metal-work

• Culture

  Iranians, Middle Easterners

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)