Dragon (1700s or later): Art, History and Details
Dragon at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1700s or later, bronze. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Dragon (1700s or later) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
This figure was probably originally meant to serve as the decorative foundation to a larger object such as a casket or urn. In transition from decorative motif to independent work of art, the nether half may have been an addition, evidenced by the seam along its torso.
Object facts
- Title: Dragon
- Date: 1700s or later
- Culture: Italy
- Type: Sculpture
- Technique: bronze
- Dimensions: Overall: 17 x 28.3 x 18 cm (6 11/16 x 11 1/8 x 7 1/16 in.)
- Collection: Sculpture
- Department: European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession number: 1973.226
Collection credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michael de Havenon
Further reading listed by the museum
- “The Year in Review for 1973.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 2 (1974): 31–78.
View the collection record
See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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