Cleveland Museum of Art
Dragon's Head
- Date
- 1100–1150
- Medium
- walrus ivory
- Culture
- Anglo-Norman?, Romanesque period, 12th century
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This exceedingly rare medieval carving, which recalls the more monumental carvings on Viking ship prows, may have been a finial for a diagonal member of a folding chair. The character of the head, the stylized acanthus leaves, and the foliage-spouting mask on the neck are characteristic of north European and Anglo-Norman Romanesque styles.
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