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Mirror with a Pair of Addorsed Sphinxes with Scorpion Tails
View through The Met
Bronze; cast
Rights: Public Domain
Islamic Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper 1915
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