المؤلف
Unknown
تاريخ النشر
1000
مكان النشر
Sicily (made) Egypt (made) -
الموضوع
Geometric Patterns
النوع
أخرى
اللغة
غير محدد
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
لا
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
Height: 17cm, Width: 25cm, Depth: 16cm
المكتبة
Victoria and Albert Museum
معرف أصل المكتبة
700-1884
رقم السجل
700-1884
موقع المكتبة
Middle East Section
التاريخ
1000
ملاحظات
This casket would have been used for storage. It provides evidence of the artistic exchange between Europe and the Middle East. It was made in Sicily or southern Italy. For its base, however, the maker reused an earlier piece of woodwork with ivory inlay. This woodwork is an extremely rare example of a technique used in Cairo in the Fatimid period (969â1171). In the medieval period, luxury goods from the Islamic Middle East found a ready market in Christian-ruled Europe. These imports enjoyed such enormous prestige that luxury goods made in Europe were often decorated in Islamic styles.
نص عينة
barakah Translation 'blessing' (Arabic) Note tentative reading of the bold inscription on the base
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Wood and ivory with traces of colour and gilding Ivory Wood Silver Mastic Painting Gilding
Fiziksel açıklama
Wood covered with panels of ivory decorated in outline with traces of colour and gilding; the mounts of silver. On the bottom is a panel inlaid with ivory, black mastic and wood, with a mutilated Kufic inscription reading 'barakah' ('blessing').
Üretim
Wooden casket made in Sicily or southern Italy, ca. 1200-1250. The base is a reused piece of earlier (Fatimid) woodwork with ivory inlay (probably Cairo, ca. 1000-1150).
