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Asian Art
Public domain

Beaker

10th–9th century B.C.E.

Bronze, conventional lion mask on foot

Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore
1952.52.43
Status: 
By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Culture: 
Iranian/Persian, probably Luristan
Period: 
Iron Age
Classification: 
Containers - Metals
Provenance: 

Mrs. William H. Moore (1858–1955), New York, to 1952; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography: 

Arthur Upham Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present, 6 vols. (London: Oxford University Press, 1938), 284, vol. 1; vol. 4, pl. 70A.

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.