Tray Portraying Courtly Pleasures
1240s
Maker Unknown
Islamic Art
Tray Portraying Courtly Pleasures, 1240s. Syria, Ayyubid period (1171–1260). Sheet brass inlaid with silver; diameter: 53.8 cm (21 3/16 in.); overall: 5.8 cm (2 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1945.386
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Metalwork
- Formatted Medium
- sheet brass inlaid with silver
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 53.8 cm (21 3/16 in.); Overall: 5.8 cm (2 5/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: The presence of ligatures in the narrow circular bands with interconnected human and animal figures suggests this may be a degenerate form of animated script. It is indecipherable.
- Departments
- Islamic Art
- Accession Number
- 1945.386
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- Islamic Art, For Modern America from the Ancient Near East, Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation)
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 116 Islamic
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