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Click here to buy the Turks catalogue from the Royal Academy’s main website.
This striking ebony box was made as a reliquary to hold a sakal-i merif — a hair from the beard of the Prophet Muhammad. The edges are inlaid with ivory bands. On the lid and each of the four sides are panels of gold filigree rumj scrolls, the spaces between filled with flat segments of turquoise. Two rubies in gold flower mounts are set in each of the long panels, and single rubies in the short panels. The base of the box has similar gold filigree decoration but without gems. The lock and chain are made of gold.
Zeren Tanindi
• Click here to buy tickets for this exhibition, or telephone +44 (0)870 8488484.
• Click here to buy the Turks catalogue from the Royal Academy’s main website.
