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Jewelry box with animal, floral and geometric designs
(علبة مجوهرات بتصميم حيوان وأشكال نباتية وهندسية)

Title	Jewelry box with animal, floral and geometric designs
Title Original	علبة مجوهرات بتصميم حيوان وأشكال نباتية وهندسية
Publication Date:	The first half of the eighth century AH / the first half of the fourteenth century AD
Publication Place	- Saint Louis Art Museum
Subject	Copper alloy with silver and gold inlay
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	الارتفاع : 13 سم ، العرض : 15.2 سم ، العمق : 12.1 سم
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	42:1926a,b
Record ID	object;EPM;us;Mus24;36;ar
Library Location	Saint Louis Art Museum
Date	The first half of the eighth century AH / the first half of the fourteenth century AD
Notes	The piece is a small jewelry box with a bronze lid perched on four oval legs attached to the body of the legs with incised decoration and rolled edges. The lid has a flat, rectangular surface decorated with interconnected/overlapping geometric and floral designs. There is a medallion resembling a small wheel in each corner, and five others equally spaced on the flat surface of the lid. The beveled edge of the lid has floral designs and also medallions with intersecting lines. The band near the lip of the cover contains a series of running dogs or deer, which faces to the left. The two ends of the box are decorated in the same way as the flat upper surface of the lid. Each wide facet has ten medallions in the shape of a wheel, and each narrow facet has five central medallions and four half-medallions, one on each edge of the panel.
Sample Text	“Jewelry box with animal, floral and geometric designs” within Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;us;Mus24;36;ar

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Jewelry box with animal, floral and geometric designs

(علبة مجوهرات بتصميم حيوان وأشكال نباتية وهندسية)

Publication Date The first half of the eighth century AH / the first half of the fourteenth century AD

Publication Place - Saint Louis Art Museum

Subject Copper alloy with silver and gold inlay

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions الارتفاع : 13 سم ، العرض : 15.2 سم ، العمق : 12.1 سم

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID 42:1926a,b

Record ID object;EPM;us;Mus24;36;ar

Library Location Saint Louis Art Museum

Date The first half of the eighth century AH / the first half of the fourteenth century AD

Notes The piece is a small jewelry box with a bronze lid perched on four oval legs attached to the body of the legs with incised decoration and rolled edges. The lid has a flat, rectangular surface decorated with interconnected/overlapping geometric and floral designs. There is a medallion resembling a small wheel in each corner, and five others equally spaced on the flat surface of the lid. The beveled edge of the lid has floral designs and also medallions with intersecting lines. The band near the lip of the cover contains a series of running dogs or deer, which faces to the left. The two ends of the box are decorated in the same way as the flat upper surface of the lid. Each wide facet has ten medallions in the shape of a wheel, and each narrow facet has five central medallions and four half-medallions, one on each edge of the panel.

Sample Text “Jewelry box with animal, floral and geometric designs” within Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;us;Mus24;36;ar