Art Trade and Culture, From the Fatimids to the Mughals

Author

Ohta; Alison

Year

2016

Publisher

Gingko

Language

English

Pages

Link

Last Update

04-Jan-2026

Keywords

Art & Art History ; Middle East Studies

Description

he inlaid brasswork of Mosul has a long history of scholarship, with a well-known central corpus of signed or dated objects. This article deals with an unpublished object, the base of a large pen box in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Heavily damaged, this object requires close attention for its original decorative scheme to be discerned. The external surface is covered with a highly sophisticated programme, in prodigiously minute gold and silver inlay, which follows the court iconography of Badr al-Din Lu’lu’ (d.1259), the ruler of Mosul.

This short report is designed to highlight a metalwork object in the...