Publication Date
3rd century AH / 9th AD
Publication Place
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Museum of Islamic Art
Subject
Wood inlaid with bone, ivory and ebony.
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
الطول: 180 سم ؛ العرض: 51 سم
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID
9518
Record ID
object;ISL;eg;Mus01;37;ar
Library Location
Museum of Islamic Art
Date
3rd century AH / 9th AD
Notes
The piece is a wooden board with decorations inlaid with bone, ivory, and ebony in a mosaic manner. The decorations consist of semicircles, circles, arches, columns, and floral designs of five-lobed grape leaves and half palm fans. These are decorations of Sassanian, Byzantine, and Coptic origins. Egypt has been famous since the Pharaonic era for making wood and inlaying it with bone, ivory, and ebony. The Copts inherited this industry, mastered it, and excelled in it, making doors, their fillings, and curtain barriers. This industry flourished in Egypt during the Umayyad and Abbasid eras. Doors, windows, pulpits, inscription bands, coffins, dinner chairs, benches, and benches were made and decorated with small pieces of bone, ivory, and ebony that were stacked side by side to form delicate geometric and floral decorative elements, as appears in this panel, which is believed to have been one of the sides of a piece of furniture belonging to a house or palace.
Sample Text
Muhammad Abbas Muhammad Selim “Woodboard” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;eg;Mus01;37;ar
