Four Fatimid ivory panels with hunters and revellers. Pergamon Museum, Berlin.

Four ivory panels with hunters and revellers.

Four Fatimid ivory panels with hunters and revellers. Pergamon Museum, Berlin.

A detail of a mounted hunter with hawk on the Pergamon Museum panels.

Hegira 5th-6th centuries / AD 11th-12th centuries, Fatimid
Ivory
The function of these panels with themes from princely life is not known, but the carving of hunters with hawks, musicians and revellers against a background of vine scrolls demonstrates the artistic quality of Fatimid ivory carving at its best and thus may be a ruler's commission for a palace.
Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Germany. (Museum für islamische Kunst, Staatliche Museen, Berlin.}

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