Appliqué: Head of a Lion
This plaque was used as an attachment for a piece of furniture or a box. The head of the lion is carefully molded, and the structure of the mane incised. Lions were connected to the king, and were also a manifestation of the horizon.
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9252
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object
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normalized
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William MacGregor, Tamworth, Staffordshire; Sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, June 26-29 and July 4-6, 1922, no. 324; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1922, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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1
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import
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| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_48.494_Fnt_DD_T08.jpg |
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.494 |
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