Dish with King Hormizd II or Hormizd III Hunting Lions
Unknown
Metalwork · silver gilt
Dish with King Hormizd II or Hormizd III Hunting Lions, 400–600 CE. Iran, Sasanian Empire (224–651 CE). Silver gilt; overall: 4.6 x 20.8 cm (1 13/16 x 8 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1962.150
Descent of Dish with King Hormizd II or Hormizd III Hunting Lions
Annotations from the network
Footnote-style observations from other contributors, folded into the layer's margins. Visible, but quiet.
- 01
Note how the Prussian blue sits in the wave's trough versus its crest — later Hokusai impressions stabilize this gradient, but early pulls like this one still feel like the pigment is being tested against the page.
- 02
The cover of Debussy's 1905 Durand edition of La Mer reproduces this print at the composer's request. A cross-medium lineage worth branching into its own layer.
- 03
Cross-impression XRF of this series (see descendant analysis) supports distinct pulls over the run — not a single uniform batch, but a recarved block drifting as it wore.