Salver
Unknown Artist
1100s
Medium
brass
Dimensions
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Classification
Metalwork
Department
Islamic Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
John L. Severance Fund
Accession Number
1980.179
About this artwork
The central subject is an enthroned ruler surrounded by couriers and musicians. The wide border is filled with an elaborately animated Kufic inscription in which the shafts of the letters terminate in human busts, representing musicians and warriors; various animals; and human hands, holding a variety of symbolic objects. This complex inscription has not yet been deciphered; it appears to be in Persian and to contain only benedictory phrases.Around the outside of the rim, an Arabic inscription, ...