Food Box
1450 to 1500 (made)
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Food box and lid of rounded oblong shape, made of copper, hammered, engraved and tinned. According to Allan, the bottom of the box has been replaced.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Brief description | Middle East, Metalwork. Food box, tinned copper, Mamluk Syria or Egypt , 1468-1496. |
| Physical description | Food box and lid of rounded oblong shape, made of copper, hammered, engraved and tinned. According to Allan, the bottom of the box has been replaced. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | مما عمل برسم المقر الأشرف العالي /المولوي الاميري الكبيري الزيني /كوشقدم الساحب زمام الذر الشريفة / وامير خازندام و ما مع ذلك الملكي (Later owner's inscription
The date AH 1231 is equivalent to AD 1815-16.)
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| Gallery label | Food box
Tinned copper, engraved with heraldic devices and panels of inscriptions
Egypt (Mamluk), 15th c.
Young Bequest(pre 2002) |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by J.W.A. Young |
| Object history | According to Allan, food boxes of this type were made in stacking sets of two or three, with a lid with a central handle. The lid could also serve as a serving dish, when the handle served as a foot. The original attachments designed to keep the stack closed and for carrying it were probably made of another material and have all been lost. This example was repaired and adapted for use as a single box at some time in its history. The decoration on the box includes a blazon, which is repeated eight times. The upper and lower fields contain decorative motifs, while the central field shows a pen box. |
| Production | The attribution to Syria is James Allan's. |
| Bibliographic reference | J.W. Allan, 'Later Mamluk Metalwork - II. A series of lunch-boxes', Oriental Art, xvii, no.2, 1971, pp.156-64. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | M.53:1, 2-1954 |
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| Record created | May 29, 2002 |
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