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Hawking drum
Cast brass with engraved champlevé decoration, irregularly crossed hatched ground with black composition
- Date:
ca. 1600 (made) - Maker:
Unknown - Collection:
Victoria and Albert Museum - Inventory number:
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Iran
- Culture:
- Period:
- Materials:Cast brass drum with engraved champlevé and black composition filling
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- Decorative elements:
- Inscriptions:If the beat of thy hawking drum O King (?) reaches its ears / The phoenix will shy from Mount Qaf, 'twill fall from its eyrie O Lord, may they health be lastingly perfect / May an auspicious fate, good fortune and exalted position be yours everlastingly To serve as thy hawking drum O King of the Time / May the Universe provide a golden bowl from the Zenith of the sky / Observe that drum and rose coloured veil / 'Tis like an eye that has become suffused with blood
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:
- Repository:Victoria and Albert Museum
- Measurements:Height: 14 cm, Diameter: 21.5 cm maximum
- View the original record:http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O109620