Inscribed, upper medallion, mirrored: Ya Muhammad! Inscribed, lower medallion, mirrored: Ya 'Ali!
Top Part of a Processional Standard, 17th century
- Islamic, Iranian
Steel
- Overall (mounted): 16 × 5 × 3 1/8 inches (40.6 × 12.7 × 7.9 cm)
Founders Society Purchase, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford II Fund, and the J. Lawrence Buell, Jr. Fund
1994.21
Details
(Said Motamed, Frankfurt, Germany)
1994-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Islamic, Iranian, Top Part of a Processional Standard, 17th century, steel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford II Fund, and the J. Lawrence Buell, Jr. Fund, 1994.21.