About the Artwork
Mirror with a Harpy
between 1100 and 1200
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Turkish
Islamic
Leaded bronze
Overall: 1/4 × 3 5/8 inches (0.6 × 9.2 cm)
Metalwork
Islamic Art
City of Detroit Purchase
29.225
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in Armenian, on the reverse: [Date (?) ] | [translated: St Gozman and | Damianos R]
Provenance
(Rudolf M. Riefstahl, Ferndale, Michigan, USA)
1929-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Oglu, Mehmet Aga. "A Note on Bronze Mirrors." Bulletin of the DIA 13, no. 2 (November 1931): pp. 17-18, p. 18 (fig. 3).
Baer, Eva. Sphinxes and Harpies in Medieval Islamic Art. Jerusalem, 1965, pl. XIX, no. 33 (ill.), pp. 16, 17 [suggests this form of harpy should be regarded as guardian against evil], pp. 48, 49 [different types of harpies described].
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Islamic, Turkish, Mirror with a Harpy, between 1100 and 1200, leaded bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 29.225.
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