Metalwork

Silver, gold and the Islamic metalworkers. 49 artworks recorded, across 3 kinds, each with a cited chain of ownership.

49 artworks

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Unidentified metalworking workshop in the al-Mawsili tradition

Tripod Candlestick

1250-1300 · Brass

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Unknown Roman silversmiths' workshop

The Projecta Casket

c. 380 · Silver

British Museum, London

Unknown Late Roman silversmith's workshop

The Great Dish from the Mildenhall Treasure

4th century CE · Silver

British Museum, London

Yunus ibn Yusuf, called al-naqqash al-Mawsili

Ewer signed by Yunus ibn Yusuf al-Mawsili

644 AH / 1246-47 CE · Brass

The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Unknown Irish goldsmith

The Tara Brooch

Late 7th to early 8th century AD · Cast and gilt silver with individually made...

National Museum of Ireland - Archaeology

Unidentified Ayyubid metalworking workshop, Damascus

D'Arenberg Basin

1247-1249 CE · Brass

Freer Gallery of Art

Unrecorded Byzantine silversmith

The Amphilochios Paten

6th century · Silver

The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland

Unknown Islamic metalworking workshop

The Pisa Griffin

c. 1085-1110 · Cast bronze

Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Pisa

Unrecorded nineteenth-century goldsmith

Cup, known as the Rospigliosi Cup

Nineteenth century · Gold

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Paul de Lamerie

Cann

1727 · Silver

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Unrecorded silversmith, northern Syria

The Antioch 'Chalice'

500-550 · Silver

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Paul de Lamerie

Tray

1745-1746 · Silver

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

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