COLLECTION NAME:
Walter B. Denny World Art & Architecture Images
Record
ID_Number:
WBD_03004
Creator name:
Shuja' ibn Man'a al-Mawsili
Creator dates:
active 1st half 13th c.
Creator nationality:
Seljuk
Title:
Blacas Ewer, detail of engravings showing hunting scene
View description:
detail
Date:
1232
Date type:
creation date
Date notes:
dated A.H. Rajab 629/AD April-May 1232
Repository name:
British Museum
Repository location:
London, England
Repository_inventory_ number:
1866,12–29.61
Style_Period:
13th century
Style_Period name variant:
thirteenth century
Style_Period:
Seljuk
Subject:
ewers (vessels)
Subject:
vessels (containers)
Subject:
metalworking
Subject:
decorations (ornaments)
Subject:
motifs
Subject:
scenes (depictions)
Subject:
battles
Subject:
sports
Subject:
court (social group)
Subject:
hunting
Culture:
Seljuk
Category:
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Work_type:
ewers (vessels)
Material_Technique:
brass inlaid with copper and silver
Measurement:
h.30.4 cm, w.22 cm, other, 21.5 cm
Copy_Source:
digital image
Image_Source:
Walter Denny disk
Note:
made in Mosul (Jazira, now Iraq)
Note:
part of exhibition: Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs, on view at The Met Fifth Avenue from April 27 through July 24, 2016.
Rights Reproduction & Access:
Copyrighted material--for educational use only
Filename:
WBD_03004.tif
