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Panel from a Rectangular Box

10th–early 11th century
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 457
This panel, carved from a single piece of ivory in a twice-repeating pattern, once adorned the side of a rectangular casket. The complexity of its decoration as well as the attention to details, such as the eyes of humans and animals, which were drilled and filled with minute quartz stones, demonstrate the refinement and the accomplishment of the caliphal ivory-carving workshop.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Panel from a Rectangular Box
  • Date: 10th–early 11th century
  • Geography: Made in Spain, probably Cordoba
  • Medium: Ivory; carved, inlaid with stone with traces of pigment
  • Dimensions: H. 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm)
    W. 8 in. (20.3 cm)
  • Classification: Ivories and Bone
  • Credit Line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913
  • Object Number: 13.141
  • Curatorial Department: Islamic Art

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