Cleveland Museum of Art
Carved Bracket
- Date
- 1600s
- Medium
- Ivory with traces of pigment
- Culture
- South India, probably Madurai
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Composite creatures with the body of a lion, tusks and trunk of an elephant, and horns of an antelope are standard elements of medieval Indian architecture and furniture. Traces of pigment indicate that this work was once brightly colored. Ivory was most often harvested from a recently deceased elephant.
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