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Sixteenth-century Spanish hunters armed with spears and accompanied by dogs attack a wild bull. It is a dangerous pursuit, and one of the men has fallen backward over his collapsed horse. The dogs are in peril as well. Barye had access to the duke of Orléans's extensive library containing books devoted to history and travel. It was from such sources that he might have derived inspiration for his subjects. This unique lost-wax cast originally was placed next to the plinth carrying the central "Tiger Hunt" (Walters 27.176) in the Duke d'Orleans' celebrated table centre-piece.
H: 18 1/16 × W: 25 9/16 × D: 11 5/8 in. (45.8 × 65 × 29.5 cm)
medium: bronze lost-wax cast with brown varnish patina over yellow bronze with minute traces of gilding
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
This woman wears a long wig and a close-fitting dress. Although the figure has lost its arms and feet, the high quality of the piece is still visible in the details of the face.
Egyptian
H above base: 16 1/8 in. (41 cm)
medium: wood, black, white, and yellow paint
culture: Egyptian
dynasty: 12th Dynasty
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
A large crane hovers at the top of this tsuba. Its wings follow the curve of the tsuba body. The depiction of the crane continues onto the reverse, where the crane's legs can be seen. The body of the tsuba is covered in a repeating pattern of small dots known as fish eggs ("nanako-ji"). The crane is a auspicious motif and a sign of longevity.
Japanese
3 1/16 in. (7.7 cm)
medium: shakudo, shibuichi, gold, and copper
style: Sano School
culture: Japanese
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Figures in a Landscape, 1763. Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (French, 1735–1813). Black ink and gray wash; framing lines in brown ink; sheet: 17.2 x 27.9 cm (6 3/4 x 11 in.); overall: 21 x 31.7 cm (8 1/4 x 12 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2018.49
More at clevelandart.org/art/2018.49
Each of the four gospels in this book opens on a page with brilliantly illuminated borders depicting the author of the text as well as birds-principally peacocks, symbols of the immortality of the soul-and fountains, representing the fountain of life and the salvation of the soul. This volume consists of 428 leaves with texts in Greek. Its level of sophistication suggests that it was probably written and decorated in a monastery in Constantinople.
Byzantium, Constantinople
ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; leather binding
Sheet: 28 x 23 cm (11 x 9 1/16 in.)
Did you know...
Gospel Books were carried in procession through Byzantine churches.
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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Africa, Central or Eastern Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, and Sudan, Zande-style maker
Iron alloy and plant fiber
Overall: 45.5 cm (17 15/16 in.)
Gift of Donna L. and Robert H. Jackson
Bottles or jars (<em>kruken</em>) of this type of six-sided form are most often associated with the ceramic tradition found in Kreussen (now Creussen) in the Bavarian region of Germany during the mid to late 1600s. With a threaded neck fitted with a pewter screw top and ring, they were ideal vessels for medicinal liquids as they could be easily connected to a belt for transport to the patient. Applied decoration depicting the twelve apostles, as on this example, allude to the spiritual nature of healing.
German, Bavaria, Kreussen
salt-glazed stoneware, applied and impressed decoration, pewter
Overall: 34.3 cm (13 1/2 in.)
Did you know...
The applied decoration on this bottle depicts the twelve apostles.
Gift of Charles G. King Jr.