Lion-Shaped Support for a Throne
Description
Caption: Lion-Shaped Support for a Throne, 664–525 B.C.E.. Bronze, gold, 3 1/16 x 2 3/16 in. (7.7 x 5.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.261. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
Bronze figure of a composite creature with a lion body and a sawn off base.
The artifact depicts a composite creature resembling a lion with a sawn off back end, likely used as a support or decorative piece. The figure is crafted in bronze, exhibiting a patina often associated with age. The style is indicative of Egyptian bronze work, with emphasis on smooth curves and anatomical fidelity in the animal form. Notable features include the dynamic posture of the creature, indicating motion or strength.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.261 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9519 tier-2
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.