The Cleveland Museum of Art

• Provenance
  ?-1956

  (Raphaël Stora [1888–1963], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

  1956-

  The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
• Citations
  Rice, D. S. “Inlaid Brasses from the Workshop of Aḥmad Al-Dhakī Al-Mawṣilī.” Ars Orientalis, vol. 2, 1957, pp. 283–326. Mentioned and Reproduced: pls. 1-2, 4-5, 15a, 15d, 16f-g; p. 287, figs. 1-2; p. 288, fig. 3; p. 289, fig. 4a-b; p. 290, figs. 5a-b; p. 291, fig. 6; p. 292, fig. 10; p. 294, figs. 11-14; p. 296, figs. 15-18; p. 297, figs. 19-20; p. 300, figs. 25a-c. www.jstor.org

  The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 710 archive.org

  Milliken, William M. “Early Byzantine Silver.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 45, no. 3, 1958, pp. 35–94. Reproduced: p. 88. 25142265

  Shepherd, Dorothy G. “An Early Inlaid Brass Ewer from Mesopotamia.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 46, no. 1, 1959, pp. 2, 4–10. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 2, 4–10. www.jstor.org

  Vaughan, Malcolm. "Fine Mesopotamian Metalwork." The Connoisseur: an illustrated magazine for collectors, June 1959. Mentioned

  The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 209. archive.org

  Scerrato, Umberto. Metalli Islamici. Milano: Fabbri, 1966. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 94–95, no. 40.

  The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 209. archive.org

  Jones, Dalu, George Michell, Hayward Gallery, and World of Islam Festival Trust. The Arts of Islam: Hayward Gallery, 8 April-4 July 1976. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1976. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 195, pp. 178–179

  The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 265. archive.org

  Shepherd, Dorothy G. “A Treasure from a Thirteenth-Century Spanish Tomb.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 65, no. 4, 1978, pp. 111–134. Mentioned: pp. 123, 133. www.jstor.org

  Zorzi, Alvise. Marco Polo: Venezia E l’Oriente. Milano: Electa, 1981.

  Ghulam, Yousif Mahmud. The Art of Arabic Calligraphy. 2nd ed. Lafayette, CA: Y.M. Ghulam, 1982 Mentioned and Reproduced.

  Myers, Bernard S. Encyclopedia of World Art. Volume XVI. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983. Reproduced: fig. 93.

  Baer, Eva. Metalwork in Medieval Islamic Art. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 220, 235, and 240; figs. 182, 193, 197.

  Atil, Esin, W. T. Chase, and Paul Jett. Islamic Metalwork in the Freer Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C.: The Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1985. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 120–121, fig. 47.

  Ettinghausen, Richard, Oleg Grabar, and Sheila Blair. The Art and Architecture of Islam, 650-1250. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1987. Reproduced: p. 365

  Makariou, Sophie. L'orient de Saladin: l'art des Ayyoubides: exposition présentée à l'Institut du monde arabe, Paris, du 23 octobre 2001 au 10 mars 2002. [Paris]: Institut du monde arabe, 2001. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 113, p. 140.

  Kana'an, Ruba. "The Biography of a Thirteenth-century Brass Ewer from Mosul." In God Is Beautiful and Loves Beauty: The Object in Islamic Art and Culture, pp. 177-194. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; Qatar: in association with the Qatar Foundation, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar, 2013. Reproduced: p. 180, fig. 156.

  Blair, Sheila and Jonathan Bloom. God Is Beautiful and Loves Beauty: The Object in Islamic Art and Culture. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; Qatar: in association with the Qatar Foundation, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar, 2013. Reproduced: fig. 156, p. 180.

  Schick, Irvin Cemil. "The Content of Form: Islamic Calligraphy between Text and Representation." In Sign and Design: Script as Image in a Cross-Cultural Perspective (300-1600 CE) (Symposium). Brigitte Bedos-Rezak, and Jeffrey F. Hamburger, eds., 173-194. Washington, D.C: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2016. Mentioned: p. 175.
• Exhibition History
  Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (May 21, 2021-May 31, 2022).

  L'Orient de saladin. Institut du Monde Arabe, 75236 Paris Cedex 05, France (organizer) (October 22, 2001-March 10, 2002).

  Arts of Islam. The Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, London (April 8-July 4, 1976).
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