Pen Box and Inkwell

late 12th century

30.2 cm 4.6 cm 7.9 cm

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The wish found in the inscription: "Glory, prosperity, wealth, happiness, well-being and abundance" is formally expressed in the engraved decoration by a hexagram, at this time a symbol common to Islam and Christianity as well as Judaism. For Muslims it was associated with the...

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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1917, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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संस्कृति
Islamic
माध्यम
copper alloy and silver

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