The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of October 3, 2023

Carved Brackets

1600s

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South India, probably Madurai

Ivory with traces of pigment

Overall: 10.2 cm (4 in.)

Bequest of Edgar A. Hahn 1972.282

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

In India ivory has been used to face wooden furniture for more than two thousand years.

Description

Composite creatures with the body of a lion, tusks and trunk of an elephant, and horns of an antelope are standard elements of medieval Indian architecture and furniture. Traces of pigment indicate that these ivory furniture facings were brightly painted.

Provenance
?-1972
Edgar A. Hahn [1882-1970], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
1972-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history

Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973).

Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1972.282