Casket
1250-1300 AD (made)
| Place of origin |
Middle East, Metalwork. Brass, cast and engraved with champleve decoration, partly inlaid with silver, the ground filled with black composition, Iran, probably 1250-1300 AD. The engraved details have been recut in Safavid times, probably in the Shah Abbas period, and the ground re-filled with black composition. Islamic. Inter-departmental transfer to MES, RF 2011/1170.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Brief description | Middle East, Metalwork. Brass, cast and engraved with champleve decoration, partly inlaid with silver, the ground filled with black composition, Iran, probably 1250-1300 AD. The engraved details have been recut in Safavid times, probably in the Shah Abbas period, and the ground re-filled with black composition. Islamic. Inter-departmental transfer to MES, RF 2011/1170. |
| Dimensions |
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| Gallery label | BOX
Bronze, damascened with silver and filled in with black composition.
PERSIAN; 15th or 16th century. (Richard Collection)(used until 10/2002) |
| Historical context | This casket, and a companion piece with closely related decoration, recut by the same Safavid craftsman belong to a small group of 13th and 14th century wares reworked in the Safavid period. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 757-1889 |
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| Record created | June 21, 2002 |
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