Twelve-sided Box

Description This twelve-sided box is inlaid with gold and silver and engraved. It has a dome-shaped cover, a hinge with two legs at the back, and a lock on the front. A wide inscription in thuluth script is interspersed with roundels displaying horsemen on the body. Two inscription bands and similar roundels are on the cover.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
1/24/1972	Treatment	cleaned
8/23/1974	Treatment	cleaned; repaired

Exhibitions

• Exhibition of Persian Art. Iranian Institute, New York. 1940.
• The Arts of Persia. 1949.

Provenance Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, August 11, 1924, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Translation] around cover: May glory and victory be yours as long as sun and moon rise; may glory and constancy be yours as long as morning and evening "rise."

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1924