Mirror with Addorsed Sphinxes

مرآة بالأسدين المجنحين

Mirror with Addorsed Sphinxes; Cleveland Museum of Art, accession 1995.402.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Overview

A bronze mirror with two facing winged lions; thirteenth century, eastern Anatolia or the Artuqid northern Jazira. In the Cleveland Museum of Art. 1

People and things also explored

Arabesque· Girih· Hedwig glass· Islamic calligraphy· Islamic geometric patterns· Islamic lustreware· Kubachi ware· Mahmal

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  1. Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access
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islam.museum contributors. “Mirror with Addorsed Sphinxes”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/object/mira-sfinks/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-18.

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