Description
This openwork metal fitting shows a lion attacked by a snake, with a band of trefoil patterns forming the upper and lower borders; with two addorsed birds on top.
Conservation
Date
Description
Narrative
2/09/1977
Examination
examined for condition
Exhibitions
Exhibition of Persian Art. Iranian Institute, New York. 1940.
The Heritage of Islam. Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston; California Academy of Sciences Museum, San Francisco; Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul; Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. 1982-1984.
Provenance
Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
