Conserved at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Inscription on the lid, repeated on the body:
ممّل عمل برسم المقرّ الأشرف العالي المولوي الأميري الكبيري الزيني خشقدم الصاحب زمام الآدر الشريفة وأمير خازندار وما مع ذلك الملكي
This is one of the objects made for His Most Noble and High Excellency, our Lord, the Great Amir, Zayn al-dīn Khushqadam, the Vizier, Warden of the Noble Princesses, and Amir Treasurer and what is implied by it, (officer) of al-Malik…
Possible dating: before 894/1489
Dimensions: 24x14x16 cm
For more details: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O65724/food-box/
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Simon Rousselot (April 4, 2020). Lunch-box for Khushqadam (V&A). Mamluk Emblems Online Corpus. Retrieved October 6, 2024 from https://doi.org/10.58079/rdlx