Dish
BackDescription:
Tray; cast brass decorated with silver inlays and engraved with arabesques and medallions. Signed.
Object type: | dish |
Museum number: | 1878,1230.705 |
School/style: | Veneto-Saracenic Style |
Culture/period: | Late Islamic |
Date: | 15thC-16thC |
Production place: | Made in: Kurdistan (?) |
Findspot: | Found/Acquired: Iran |
Materials: | brass, silver |
Technique: | cast, engraved, inlaid |
Dimensions: | Diameter: 29.00 cm Depth: 3.50 cm |
Inscriptions: | Inscription details: signature (within four small roundels) Inscription quoted: Inscription transliteration: Mahmud al-Kurdi |
Location: | 10 |
Exhibition history: | Exhibited: 2007 26 Mar-8 Jul, USA, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Moments of Vision - Venice and the Islamic World 2006 2 Oct-2007 18 Feb, France, Paris, Institut de Monde Arabe, Moments of Vision - Venice and the Islamic World |
Acquisition names: | Bequeathed by: John Henderson |
Acquisition date: | 1878 |
Curator's comments:
On the origin of this type of metalware: D. Behrens-Abouseif, "Veneto-Saracenic Metalware, a Mamluk Art", Mamluk Studies Review 9 (2005) 147-172.; The 'nisba' suggests that the maker of this tray, or his family, originated in the region of Kurdistan as it seems to read 'al-Kurdi', translating to "the Kurd", as well as stylistic affinities between this piece and other metalwork and carpets from this region according to Allan (1989).
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