Image of islamic art-lion-bronze engraved-inv.n.4305-Fatimid 12th century-MIA

islamic art-lion-bronze engraved-inv.n.4305-Fatimid 12th century-MIA - 14 07 09 025

IMAGE number: VIS693594
Image title: islamic art-lion-bronze engraved-inv.n.4305-Fatimid 12th century-MIA - 14 07 09 025
Photographer: Sandro Vannini
Location: Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo, Egypt

Image description: the body of this cast piece is hollow. its belly is pierced and it is likely that was used as a fountainhead with water issuing from the lion's mouth.it is interesting for the abstraction of its major elements: the nose and eyebrows are reduced to triangles and these are repeated in the knees of the forelegs and in the rendering of the chest. the rope like tail ends with the head of a dragon-lion-bronze engraved-inv.n.4305-Fatimid 12th century-MIA - 14 07 09 025
Photo credit: © Sandro Vannini / Bridgeman Images
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