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.
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