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Stefan Bocskai's crown box
(صندوق لتاج ستيفان بوسكاي )

Title	Stefan Bocskai's crown box
Title Original	صندوق لتاج ستيفان بوسكاي
Publication Date:	Approximately 1605 AD
Publication Place	- Art History Museum
Subject	Canvas, wood, silk, silver, gold plating
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	لا يوجد معلومات متوفرة
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	SK_WS_XIV_184
Record ID	object;EPM;at;Mus22;45;ar
Library Location	Art History Museum
Date	Approximately 1605 AD
Notes	This domed twelve-sided box is made of wood and covered with cloth. The clasp/buckle on the front and the hinges on the back are silver plated. The covering fabric is Farsnvis silk and is decorated with a pictorial scene of people surrounded by flowers. The people are half sitting and half bent over, and there is a woman reading a book. Beside her, a servant with a wide turban drawn down to the ground bends down, offering a bowl with his right hand and holding a flask in his left. Between the two people there is a bowl containing fruit. In the open book of the Lady, you can read the signature of the artist Momen in Arabic inscription, and inside the box the fabric retains all its structure as if it were new in terms of its original colors, which is characteristic of the high taste of the court of Shah Abbas the Great (1587 - 1628 AD) in Isfahan. Technically, it can be described as a colorful lampas silk fabric. An Italian cloth from the beginning of the seventeenth century is attached to the floor of the box. The floor of the box is made of red silk with a satin stamen, and the pattern, which takes the shape of pointed/needle leaves and blooming flowers, is made of yellow silk woven with a twill system and woven with silver threads.
Sample Text	“Chest for the Crown of Stefan Bocskai” in Explore Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;at;Mus22;45;ar

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Stefan Bocskai's crown box

(صندوق لتاج ستيفان بوسكاي )

Publication Date Approximately 1605 AD

Publication Place - Art History Museum

Subject Canvas, wood, silk, silver, gold plating

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions لا يوجد معلومات متوفرة

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID SK_WS_XIV_184

Record ID object;EPM;at;Mus22;45;ar

Library Location Art History Museum

Date Approximately 1605 AD

Notes This domed twelve-sided box is made of wood and covered with cloth. The clasp/buckle on the front and the hinges on the back are silver plated. The covering fabric is Farsnvis silk and is decorated with a pictorial scene of people surrounded by flowers. The people are half sitting and half bent over, and there is a woman reading a book. Beside her, a servant with a wide turban drawn down to the ground bends down, offering a bowl with his right hand and holding a flask in his left. Between the two people there is a bowl containing fruit. In the open book of the Lady, you can read the signature of the artist Momen in Arabic inscription, and inside the box the fabric retains all its structure as if it were new in terms of its original colors, which is characteristic of the high taste of the court of Shah Abbas the Great (1587 - 1628 AD) in Isfahan. Technically, it can be described as a colorful lampas silk fabric. An Italian cloth from the beginning of the seventeenth century is attached to the floor of the box. The floor of the box is made of red silk with a satin stamen, and the pattern, which takes the shape of pointed/needle leaves and blooming flowers, is made of yellow silk woven with a twill system and woven with silver threads.

Sample Text “Chest for the Crown of Stefan Bocskai” in Explore Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;at;Mus22;45;ar