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Summary
Luxury Inlaid Container
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| Title |
Luxury Inlaid Container |
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| Description |
Silver and gold inlay transforms this brass box into a luxury container. Courtiers, birds, and fretwork form the decoration while inscriptions extend good wishes. On the body it reads: "Brilliance, and nobility, and patience, and modesty, and glory, and long life, and piety, and patience." |
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| Date | 1250 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Sheet brass, inlaid with silver and gold | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Diameter: 11.4 cm (4 1/2 in.); Overall: 12 cm (4 3/4 in.); Diameter of box: 10.1 cm (4 in.); Box: 9.7 cm (3 13/16 in.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current location |
Islamic Art |
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| Accession number |
1944.482 |
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| Place of creation | Norther Iraq, Ayyubid period, 13th-14th century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.482 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensing
 
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This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. |
| The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of their rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.
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This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project with the Cleveland Museum of Art. See the Open Access at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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| current | 10:54, 21 January 2019 | | 3,400 × 2,866 (6.47 MB) | Madreiling | pattypan 18.02 |
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