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NM 0061/1899 :: Box

Object description: Beaten brass, Cylindrical body and flat base, lock and engraved and inlaid with silver and copper. Surface on body divided into three horizontal registers. Upper and lower feature a plain plate motif outlining the central register where triangles filles with arabesque form an ondulating register. attached to these triangles, arabesque blossoms alternately hang down or up. In these arabesques there are still traces of copper and silver inlay.

Data elements

NM 0061/1899

Brass; Silver; Copper

Exhibitions

Persisk Konst i Sverige, Nationalmuseum 17 april- 12 augusti 1973, cat. nr. 196, p. 52.

Acquisition

Purchased with governmental means from the collection of F.R. Martin according to the royal letter from the 4/11/1898. N°s 0046-0160/1899, price 4.869 SEK, registered 29/8/1899.

Description

Beaten brass, Cylindrical body and flat base, lock and engraved and inlaid with silver and copper. Surface on body divided into three horizontal registers. Upper and lower feature a plain plate motif outlining the central register where triangles filles with arabesque form an ondulating register. attached to these triangles, arabesque blossoms alternately hang down or up. In these arabesques there are still traces of copper and silver inlay.

Period

12th century AD

Name - Collected by

Martin, Fredrik Robert (1868-05-08 - 1933-04-19), Art dealer, Collector

Source - http: sok.riksarkivet.se, libris.kb.se, collections.smvk.se
Source, Wikip. - is desc. by: sv.wikipedia.org
Source, Kulturnav - same as: kulturnav.org

Name - Photographer

Medelhavsmuseet 2008

Description: Medelhavsmuseet 2008 represents pictures taken in 2008 by Ove Kaneberg, Karl Zetterström or Tony Sandin. In 2008 a new strategy of photographing objects started.
Source - http: collections.smvk.se

Comments

Iran 12th century says register, but, according to Allan, J. W., Islamic Metalwork, The Nuhad Es-Said Collection, London 1982, n° 11, this form was common in inlaid brass under the Atabeks, Ayyubids and Mamluks under the 13th-14th centuries,. ref. parallels.

NegNo

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Cf_Publications

Allan, J. W., Islamic Metalwork, The Nuhad Es-Said Collection, London 1982, n° 11 (with double-headed eagle).

Scerrato, U., Arte Islamica a Napoli, Naples 1967, n°7, fig. 10-12 (al-Malik al-’Aziz, ruler of Aleppo 1231-33).

Rice, D. S., “The brasses of Badr al-Din Lu’lu’”, BSOAS, vol. 13, n° 3, 1950, pls. 14,16 (bears the titles of Badr al-Dîn Lu’lu’ 1234-1259).

Lane-Poole, S., The Art of the Saracens in Egypt, 1886, fig. 80 (for al-Malik al-’Adil II, 1238-40).

Publications

Persisk Konst i Sverige, Nationalmuseum 17 april- 12 augusti 1973, cat. nr. 196, p. 52.

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H. 7,4 cm., Rim Ø. 9,8 cm.

Condition

Fragmentary. Lost lid, interior covered with verdigris.

Original register

Islam

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