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Molded Horse and Rider with a Cheetah in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2022
Title: Mounted Hunter with Cheetah
Date: 12th–early 13th century
Geography: Attributed to Jazira (or Iran?)
Medium: Stonepaste; molded in sections, glazed in transparent turquoise, underglaze-painted in black
Dimensions: H. 10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm)
W. 3 in. (7.6 cm)
D. 8 1/4 in. (21 cm)
Wt. 24 oz (680.5 g)
Classification: Ceramics
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1966
Accession Number: 66.23
Specialized cheetah-keepers tamed and trained cheetahs, caracals, and other wild felines for hunting expeditions, a traditional leisure pursuit of royalty and the wealthy elite. The trained felines rode with their masters on horses and hunted animals such as hares and gazelles. Despite this horseman’s weapons (a mace and a shield), his small cheetah suggests he is a hunter. The figurine was manufactured by altering a preexisting mold of a drinker: the applied arm holding the mace covers and conceals the mold’s original, bent arm holding a cup.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/451850
Date: 12th–early 13th century
Geography: Attributed to Jazira (or Iran?)
Medium: Stonepaste; molded in sections, glazed in transparent turquoise, underglaze-painted in black
Dimensions: H. 10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm)
W. 3 in. (7.6 cm)
D. 8 1/4 in. (21 cm)
Wt. 24 oz (680.5 g)
Classification: Ceramics
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1966
Accession Number: 66.23
Specialized cheetah-keepers tamed and trained cheetahs, caracals, and other wild felines for hunting expeditions, a traditional leisure pursuit of royalty and the wealthy elite. The trained felines rode with their masters on horses and hunted animals such as hares and gazelles. Despite this horseman’s weapons (a mace and a shield), his small cheetah suggests he is a hunter. The figurine was manufactured by altering a preexisting mold of a drinker: the applied arm holding the mace covers and conceals the mold’s original, bent arm holding a cup.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/451850
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