Reliquary Bust of Saint Yrieix – French – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/464333
Pierpont Morgan, 1917 Object Number: 17.190.352a, b From the Church of Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche
Pierpont Morgan, 1917 Object Number: 17.190.352a, b From the Church of Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche
Inscription: Inscriptions: Outer guard band: Qur’an, ch. II, vv. 285, 286Main border: Qur’an, ch. II, v. 256Inner guard band: Qur’an, ch. VII, vv. 203–205 Border of niche: Qur’an, ch
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1944. p. 288, ill. fig. 190 (b/w).
Footed BowlAlong with gilded examples, the most treasured glass objects in the Islamic world were the enameled ones, which developed during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in Syria and Egypt under the Ayyubids and Mamluks
B. Tauris, 2012, fig. 1.7.
Inscription: (on each corner and in center): A [image of a knot] E [reversed] (unidentified)(on red horn): W [backwards E] D H N O H N M E H O M (too fragmentary for interpretation)
B. Lippincott, 1925. pl. VI, b–d. Breck, Joseph.
Said to have been found near Olympia (Richter 1948, p.152) [Until 1934, with Theodoros
1947 Object Number: 47.100.3 Said to have been found near Olympia (Richter 1948, p.152
This group of five ivory panels are the reassembled elements of a „composite casket,“ so called by scholars because the narrative scenes that adorn them are vignettes from a variety of popular stories and chivalric romances
Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, London and Goodrich (from at least 1835) [17.190.173a, b]
(b/w). Breck, Joseph, and Frances Morris. "The Metropolitan Museum of Art."
Beeson, Nora B., ed. Guide to The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Bidri Water Pipe BaseOf the small number of known bidri objects that predate the eighteenth century, a majority are huqqa (water pipe) bases. Tobacco arrived in India sometime in the late sixteenth century, brought by the Portuguese from the New World to the port of Goa
Textile Museum Journal 25, 1986, p. 14, fig. 18, p. 21, no. 19.
Tughra of Sultan Süleyman the MagnificentThe Ottoman Turkish sultans controlled one of the most efficient, well-organized, and effective governmental bureaucracies of early modern times; at the apex of this governmental structure was the Ottoman Imperial Chancery, which created, copied, and recorded all official governmental orders or decrees, known as firman, as well as treaties and official correspondence
Atil 1987, p. 41, no. 4.