- Title
- Panel
- Date Made
- late 14th-15th century
- Medium
- Wood, carved and painted
- Dimensions
- 5 3/4 x 41 in. (14.6 x 104.14 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2002.1.752
- Collecting Area
- Art of the Middle East: Islamic
- Curatorial Notes
The Berber-descended Marinid rulers of Morocco (1244–1465) were important patrons of art and architecture who often hired immigrant craftsmen from Islamic Spain to decorate the religious monuments they commissioned. The result is a series of mosques and madrasas (religious schools) with interior walls covered by intricate stuccowork, tile mosaics, and meticulously carved wood paneling of a distinctively Spanish inspiration. This wood plank, which likely comes from one such Marinid religious institution, is probably the lower half of a two-board panel, with a repeated Arabic inscription (the word "al-Yumn" or prosperity, written forward and backward), vegetal designs, and a seashell motif enclosed within cusped arches.
