Dumbarton Oaks - Stag (Cervid) with Support on its Back

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Stag (Cervid) with Support on its Back

Western Asia
early 1st century BCE
51.2 x 19.5 cm (20 3/16 x 7 11/16 in.)
bronze
BZ.1932.5

Not on view

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Additional Images

Profile, proper right

Profile, proper left

Three-quarter view

Description

Simplified figure of a stag wilth antlers standing with his legs slightly apart. From his back rises a tall support in two uneven sections, joined by an elongated barrel "bead," at the top a holder for either a lamp or a vessel.

Bibliography

Master Bronzes, Albright Art Gallery (Buffalo, 1937), cat. no. 6, ill.

Exhibition of Persian Art, Cat. 2nd ed. (New York, 1940), p. 303 and fig. on p. 304.

Bulletin of the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. X, no. 4 (Dec. 1945), p. 108 and reproduction p. 121.

Handbook of the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Harvard University (Washington, DC, 1955), no. 60.

Handbook of the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Harvard University (Washington, DC, 1967), no. 88.

Exhibition History

Buffalo, NY, Albright Art Gallery, "Master Bronzes," February 1937.

New York, Iranian Institute, "Six Thousand Years of Persian Art," April 24, 1940 - June 1940.

Cambridge, Fogg Museum, "A Selection of Ivories, Bronzes, Metalwork and Other Objects from the Dumbarton Oaks Collection," Nov. 15 - Dec. 31, 1945.

Acquisition History

Purchased from Kelekian, New York, 1932.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks.

Harvard University, The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, November 1940.

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Byzantine Collection, Washington, D.C.

Object Last Modified: 11/16/2023