Name: Adornment from small chest
Provenance: Mértola
Location: Museum of Mértola. Museum of Islamic Art
Description: Small quadrangular adornment from a chest with plant-form decoration: two flowers with light blue and greyish green enamelled petals, surrounded by white enamel and the remaining spaces filled with light blue. This object was used to decorate small chests covered with bone or marble sheets.
Dimensions: Height 37mm, larg.16mm
Chronology: Late 11th century / first half of the 12th century
Retrieved from:
TORRES, Cláudio; MACIAS, Santiago (ed.) (2003): Museu de Mértola: arte islâmica. Mértola: Campo Arqueológico de Mértola, pp.176.
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