Mirror with Addorsed Sphinxes

1200s

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Title: Mirror with Addorsed Sphinxes
Date Created: 1200s
Physical 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.)
Provenance: Thomas and Martha Carter, Madison, WI, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Type: Metalwork
Rights: CC0
External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.402
Medium: Cast bronze with relief decoration
Inscriptions: 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.
Department: Islamic Art
Culture: Eastern Anatolia or Northern Mesopotamia, 12th-early 13th century
Credit Line: Gift of Drs. Thomas and Martha Carter in Honor of Sherman E. Lee
Collection: Islamic Art
Accession Number: 1995.402

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