Author
Ohta; Alison
Year
2016
Publisher
Gingko
Language
English
Pages
11
Last Update
05-Sep-2024
Keywords
Art & Art History ; Middle East Studies
he inlaid brasswork of Mosul has a long history of scholarship, with a well-known central corpus of signed or dated objects. This article deals with an unpublished object, the base of a large pen box in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Heavily damaged, this object requires close attention for its original decorative scheme to be discerned. The external surface is covered with a highly sophisticated programme, in prodigiously minute gold and silver inlay, which follows the court iconography of Badr al-Din Lu’lu’ (d.1259), the ruler of Mosul.
This short report is designed to highlight a metalwork object in the...
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