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NM 0059/1899 :: pen box

Object description

Rectangular shape, beaten brass, incised and inlaid decoration. Body; exterior divided into three horizontal registers, central inscription on floral background and in upper and lower register, circular medallions on a regular distance show alternately rosettes and svastika-motifs. Inscription regularly intersected by circular medallions featuring a sixpointed star on a geometrical pattern based on the sixpointed star.

Interior; walls on long sides feature knotted plain silver bands in rectangular sections. On the end, three circular medallions on floral background linked by plain band. The central medallion has an arabesque, the two others are starshaped. Bottom; three star medallions linked with circular rosettes, outlined with arabesque on a background of double Ys. The fields are outlined with arabesque. The interior inkpart is missing.

Lid, exterior, upper part idem sides of body, but registers separated by meander bands. Sides, idem but only one register. Inside, Tree registers, central inscription on floral ground, in center arabesque medallion. Upper and lower succession of circular arabesque medallions on a doub le-Y ground sides almond-shaped incisions.

Data elements
References (1)

Inventory number

NM 0059/1899

Serie nummer

12249

Object

pen box

Country - Findspot

Syria : Asia

Country - Origin

Syria : Asia

Place - Findspot

Damascus

Material

Brass; Silver

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

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

14th-15th century AD

Name - Collected by

Martin, Fredrik Robert (1868-05-08 - 1933-04-19), art dealer, collector

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

Name - Owner

Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Description: Nationalmuseum is a publicly owned cultural institution.Nationalmuseum%20is%20a%20publicly%20owned%20cultural%20institution.
Source - http: www.nationalmuseum.se, collections.smvk.se

Comments

Inventory from 1992 says Damascus 14th-15th century.

Äldre bilder av Ove Kaneberg

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NM 0059_1899(1).jpg

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NM 0059/1899 a

NM 0059/1899 b

NM 0059_1899(2).jpg

NM 0059_1899(3).jpg

Height / Höjd

5,4 cm (without lid); 6,4 cm (with lid)

Width / Bredd

32,8 cm

Loan in - Current

in-1977.0002, Medelhavsmuseet

Condition

Fragmentary, decoration worn off on outside, compsrtment for ink, sand and paste.

Conservation - Executed

1999-06-02, Dnr. 819-4201-1998, cleaned.

Original register

Islam

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