Twelve-sided Box

late 13th-early 14th century

26.8 cm 25.7 cm

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This twelve-sided box is inlaid with gold and silver and engraved. It has a dome-shaped cover, a hinge with two legs at the back, and a lock on the front. A wide inscription in thuluth script is interspersed with roundels displaying horsemen on the body. Two inscription bands...

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27651
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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, August 11, 1924, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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