Title

Ivory casket lid, 965 to 970 AD, (1881). Creator: W Jones.

Caption

Ivory casket lid, 965 to 970 AD, (1881). Etching of the carved lid of a box, made in Al-Andalus (Andalucia, Spain), possibly at Madinat al-Zahra, Córdoba, in the mid 10th century. From "The South Kensington Museum", a book of engraved illustrations, with descriptions, of the works of art in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (formerly known as the South Kensington Museum). [Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1881]

Date

1881

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F37_058

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

65,2Mb (3,8Mb) / 12,9in x 19,6in / 3876 x 5877 (300dpi)

Keywords

city religious arts carving country religion Spain Spanish Moorish book box museum decorative Andalusia Islam Islamic carved boxes location century literature ivory artefact Cordoba artifact casket 19th century 10th Century tenth century B W Victoria and Albert Museum nineteenth century The Print Collector Madinat Az-Zahra Museum of Ornamental Art South Kensington Museum TGN etching engraving Victoria & Albert Museum V&A Madinat al-Zahara Medina Azahara Hispano-Arabic V&A Museum Sampson Low The South Kensington Museum Marston W Jones Jones W W. Jones Jones W. Madinat al-Zahra Medina az-Zahra