Two Ceramic Tiles (nos. 02.5.91 and 1971.235.2)Major renovations undertaken about 1578 in the private quarters (or harem) of Istanbul’s Topkapı Palace during the reign of Sultan Murad III (r
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1960, excavated under the direction of Max Mallowan, on behalf of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq; ceded in the division of finds to the British School of Archaeology in Iraq; acquired by the Museum in 1960, as a result of its financial contribution to the excavations
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Beads (1980.456, .457) and pendant (30.95.37)Among the luxury arts that flourished under the Fatimid caliphs, gold jewelry stands out for its innovation and complexity. According to literary sources, prodigious amounts of such jewelry were manufactured for both royal and patrician patrons; most of these items were later melted down for currency or refashioned into newer pieces
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Sir Giles Capel, Rayne Hall, Essex, England (until d. 1556; bequeathed to All Saints Chapel); All Saints Chapel, Rayne Hall, Essex, England (1556–1840; removed by Parmenter); William Parmenter, Bocking, Essex, England (1840–about 1866; sold for 10 s, to Courtauld); Edith Courtauld (later Arendrup), London, England (about 1866–80; gift to de Cosson); Baron Charles Alexander de Cosson, London (1880–93; sold on April 17, 1893, for Fr
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Ca. 1911, known and possibly purchased by Ernst Herzfeld, near Tell al-Deylam (ancient Dilbat); by 1914, collection of Frida and/or Georg Hahn, Berlin, who most probably acquired it from Ernst Herzfeld; 1939, left on deposit at the British Museum by the Hahn family; acquired by the Museum in 1947, purchased from Charlotte Weidler, New York, on behalf of Georg Hahn
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Inscription: (in each corner and in center): A [image of a knot] E [reversed] (unidentified)(on scabbard hanging from man on left): AVE : / REGINA . C[AELORVM] (Hail the Queen of the Heavens [reference to one of the Marian antiphons]) (on dog’s collar, left): OFANGRE (too fragmentary for interpretation) (on dog’s collar, center): A [image of a knot] E [reversed] (unidentified)
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Bartolomeo Suardi was known as Bramantino after his contemporary in Milan, the great architect Bramante (1443/44–1514); his abiding interest in perspective and architecture, reflected in the background of this rare, private devotional painting, comes from that source
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From the north nave of the former Carmelite church at Boppard-am-Rhein in Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis), near Koblenz, Germany.; Count Hermann Pückler, Muskau (from 1818) ; [ Frédéric Spitzer Austrian, Paris (from at least 1875–sold 1893)] ; his posthumous sale, Chevallier & Mannheim, Paris (April 17–June 16, 1893, no
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