Ring

Object Details

• Label

  This ring, fashioned from a gold sheet, is hollow. Arabic inscriptions in kufic script rendered in niello decorate the two side panels and the central panels of the front and back of the ring. The three inscriptions read, "Good fortune and blessing and blessing and joy and sovereignty. Blessing and good fortune and..." The niello decoration of this ring is typical of eleventh and twelfth-century Iranian jewelry.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Islamic Metalwork in the Freer Gallery of Art (September 27, 1985 to November 17, 1986)

  Near Eastern Art (January 1, 1963 to August 18, 1967)

  Persian Art (January 1, 1963 to September 3, 1963)

  Special Exhibition of Persian Art (May 1, 1960 to August 11, 1961)

  Centennial Exhibition, Galleries 6 and 7 (February 25, 1956 to April 10, 1962)

• Origin

  Iran

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Jewelry and Ornament

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1100s, 1200s

• Topic

  Hammering, Gold, Silver, Kufic script, Art, Niello, Arts of the Islamic World, Metal-work

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Ornaments, Jewelry