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Dragon's Head
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About this work
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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineDragon's Head, 1100–1150. Anglo-Norman?, Romanesque period, 12th century. Walrus ivory; overall: 6.4 cm (2 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Thomas P. Miller in memory of James J. Rorimer, 1975.258
