Tray Made for the Rasulid Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Da'ud ibn Yusuf

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 453

A sultan from Yemen commissioned this tray, which includes his name and titles in a large band surrounding a central medallion with the twelve signs of the zodiac and personifications of the seven planets of medieval belief (the sun, the moon, Mars, Jupiter, Mercury, Saturn, and Venus).

Tray Made for the Rasulid Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Da'ud ibn Yusuf, Brass; engraved and inlaid with silver and black compound

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