H x W x D: 17.2 x 12.2 x 14.9 cm (6 3/4 x 4 13/16 x 5 7/8 in)
Type:
Vessel
Origin:
India
Date:
15th century
Period:
Delhi Sultanate period
Description:
Lion with right foreleg resting on the head of an elephant. The two animals stand on a round platform with low sides and a scalloped edge. The platform is pierced with two small holes to either side of the lion.
Provenance:
From the 1960s
Mr. F. Momtaz (died 1985) and Mrs. F. Momtaz, Iran, Paris, and London, from the 1960s [1]
To 1991
John Lawrence Fine Arts, London, to 1991
From 1991
Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from John Lawrence Fine Arts in 1991
Notes:
[1] According to Mrs. F. Momtaz, the object was in the collection of her husband, a prominent dealer in Islamic art, during the 1960s. She and her husband left Iran in about 1950 and moved to Paris; around 1960 they moved to London, where, until his death in 1985, Mr. Momtaz had a gallery near Portobello Road (see Curatorial Note 3 in the object record).
Collection:
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Exhibition History:
Engaging the Senses (October 14, 2017 - ongoing)
Masterworks of Indian Painting (December 13, 1997 to June 13, 1998)
At the Margins (June 4 to November 30, 1997)
South and South East Asian Art (May 9, 1993 to February 7, 2000)
