box;
lid
- Museum number
- Af1992,01.45.a-b
- Description
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Rectangular ceramic box (a) and five-sided lid (b). Box has narrow rim inside to support lid. Ivory underglaze inside box and on base and inside lid. Box painted with background blue-green enamel, mihrab forms painted inside with floral motifs in blue, yellow and blue-green; outlines in black. Lid painted with floral and geometric patterns in blue, yellow, red and blue-green, outlined in black.
- Production date
- 20thC(late)
- Dimensions
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Height: 14 centimetres (a + b)
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Height: 5 centimetres (a)
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Height: 5 centimetres (b)
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Width: 17.50 centimetres (a)
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Width: 17.50 centimetres (b)
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Depth: 10.50 centimetres (a)
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Depth: 9 centimetres (b)
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good. Two chips from edge of box, locally repaired and painted out in blue-green. Chip from top of box lid.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Acquisition notes
- Collected by Dr Barley (Ethno dept staff) during a period of fieldwork in Morocco in January-March 1992.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1992,01.45.a-b
