Tombak – Iranian (Persian) – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/501876
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From a room above the chapter house of the Monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza, near Hortigüela, Burgos, Spain (sold by the government in the nineteenth century); Private Collection ; [ Sr. Colominas, Barcelona (sold 1931)]
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PanelIn their time, the royal quarters at Madinat al-Zahra, the caliphal court in al-Andalus, must have been a spectacular sight, with lavish architectural decoration; luxuriant curtains, textiles, and furnishings; and sumptuous objects
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evidence of that syncretism, and this drum may have been used in colonial times to link
Segredakis]; [1930-1947, with Joseph Brummer, New York (P7155)]; May 27, 1947, acquired
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Inscription: (obverse legend): + CONSTANTIVS / . IN XPO [should be CHRISTO] . DEO . FIDELIS . IMPERAT / OR . ET . MODERATOR / ROMANORVM . ET. SEMPER . AVGVSTVS (Constantine, faithful in Christ [and] in God, emperor and master of the Romans and forever Augustus)(obverse exergue): z34 (234) (reverse legend): : + MIHI : ABSIT : GLORIARI :
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[Before 1963, with Ayoub Rabenou]; from 1963, on loan by The Guennol Collection (Alastair Bradley Martin’s collection) to the Museum (L.63.10.2); until 1994, Alastair Bradley Martin’s family; acquired by the Museum in 1994, purchased from The Merrin Gallery, New York
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Inscription: Inscribed in graphite with numerous color notations, including, in left margin: „violet / fond jaune / violet / filaments bleus / fond blanc“; top center: „baguettes vertes et rouges“; right margin: „bleu et jaune le milieu des fleurs / bleu / violet / vert“; far right (oriented perpendicularly): „l’aigle qui [illegible]“Marking: Stamped in red ink, lower left: Delacroixp estate mark (Lugt 838a)
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