Horse-bit
Former TitleBit with Winged Moufflons
CultureMesopotamian
Dateearly 1st millennium B.C.E.
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 5 1/2 × 8 1/2 inches (13.97 × 21.59 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number32-27
On View
On viewGallery Location
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Collections
Gallery LabelThis bit's owner hoped his horse would be as swift as the winged ibex portrayed on it. The artist reconfigured the ibex so that the horns, wings and tail form harmonious curves.
Arthur Upham Pope (1881-1969), by 1932;
Purchased from Pope by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.
Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 12.
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 16.
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