The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of January 30, 2023

Spiral Armilla

c. 1500 BC

Central Europe, Bronze Age, c. 2500-800 BC

Bronze, wrought

Overall: 16.5 x 12.1 cm (6 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1988.4

Location

106A Migration Period & Coptic

Fun Fact

This armilla or arm ornament has a ridge along the spine, ending in a large spiral at one end.

Provenance
Dr. Egger, Vienna, sold at Sotheby's 1891; Pitt River; (Michael Ward, New York).
Citations
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. Reproduced: p. 4 archive.org
Kozloff, Arielle P. "Ancient East-European Bronzes." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 4 (1993): 122-26. Reproduced: p. 123; Mentioned: p. 122-26 www.jstor.org
Sims, Lowery Stokes. The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006. Mentioned; P. 86; reproduced: P. 13, no. 3
Exhibition history

MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art", no. 3, p. 115, color repr. p. 13.

The Year in Review for 1988. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 1-May 14, 1989).

The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1988.4