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The skin stretched over it was 'rosy-coloured'. When beaten, the drum disturbed the birds that were to be the falcons' prey. The swirling bands on the body each contain a different pattern.\r\n\r\nThis piece illustrates a new type of brassware with fine, engraved decoration that emerged in Iran around 1550. Human and animal motifs, absent since before 1400, reappeared. Stylised plants and other ornament appeared in relief against a hatched ground, originally filled with a black compound. The decoration was often arranged in bands or cartouches that matched the shape of the object. Poetic inscriptions in the elegant ‘nasta’liq’ style of Persian calligraphy were also common.","physicalDescription":"Cast brass with engraved champlevé decoration, irregularly crossed hatched ground with black composition","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"brass","id":"AAT10946"}],"techniques":[{"text":"engraving","id":"AAT53829"},{"text":"champlevé","id":"AAT53777"},{"text":"niello","id":"AAT54022"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Cast brass drum with engraved champlevé and black composition filling","categories":[{"text":"Metalwork","id":"THES48920"},{"text":"Musical instruments","id":"THES48919"},{"text":"Islam","id":"THES48932"}],"styles":[{"text":"Safavid","id":"AAT21712"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"MES","id":"THES48607"},"images":["2006AB9514","2017JY0250"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"42 (VA)","id":"THES49806"},"free":"","case":"9E","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Hawking drum","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Iran","id":"x30220"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1600","earliest":"1595-01-01","latest":"1604-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"14","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"21.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"maximum","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Hemistichs from a mystical poem with an interplay of meanings are calligraphed in <i>nasta aliq</i>. They refer to the hawking drum and its musical theme. Translations from A.S. Melikian-Chirvani. <u>Islamic Metalwork from the Iranian World: 8th- 18th Centuries</u>. (London, 1982)"},{"content":"If the beat of thy hawking drum O King (?) reaches its ears / The phoenix will shy from Mount Qaf, 'twill fall from its eyrie","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""},{"content":"O Lord, may they health be lastingly perfect / May an auspicious fate, good fortune and exalted position be yours everlastingly","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""},{"content":"To serve as thy hawking drum O King of the Time / May the Universe provide a golden bowl from the Zenith of the sky / Observe that drum and rose coloured veil / 'Tis like an eye that has become suffused with blood","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"Misidentified as a \"brass lamp\",  this brass hawking drum was purchased in Paris as part of \"Dr Meymar's Collection\", a diverse group of objects sent to France by the Egyptian government, for display at the international exhibition of 1867. In 1869, following discussions at a parliamentary Select Committee in London, the South Kensington Museum (today the V&A) was authorised to buy this collection, with a British government grant.\r\n\"Dr Meymar\" was Husayn Fahmi (c.1827-1891), also called Husayn Pasha al-Mi`mar or al-Mi`mari (transliterated as \"Meymar\", meaning architect), a senior official in the Egyptian administration. He was (in 1864) the chief architect of the Majlis al-Tanzim wa'l-Urnatu, a committee in charge of public works in Cairo, and later (1882-5) a member of the Comite de conservation des monuments de l'Art arabe, which oversaw Cairo's historic heritage. Throughout his career, he was responsible for salvage and removal of historic architectural fittings, and for the construction of modern monuments and streets in the Egyptian capital.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Brass hawking drum, Iran, about 1600.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"A. S. Melikian-Chirvani, <u>Islamic Metalwork from the Iranian World, 8-18th Centuries</u>, London, 1982, pp.307-09, cat. no. 136."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Moya Carey, <i>Persian Art. Collecting the Arts of Iran for the V&A</i>, London, 2017, p.81."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[{"text":"Cairo","id":"x28776"}],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[{"text":"Husayn Fahmi","id":"AUTH346641"}],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[{"text":"Paris Exhibition, 1867","id":"V34"}],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"Jameel Gallery \r\n\r\nBrass Hawking Drum\r\nIran\r\nAbout 1600\r\n\r\nThe poem on this drum makes clear that it was used in falconry, an activity restricted to men of the highest rank. The skin stretched over it was 'rosy-coloured', and, when beaten, the drum disturbed the birds who were to be the falcons' prey. The swirling bands on the body each contain a different pattern.\r\n\r\nBrass engraved and filled with a black composition\r\n\r\nMuseum no. 1060-1869","date":{"text":"Jameel Gallery","earliest":"2006-07-20","latest":null}},{"text":"KETTLE-DRUM\r\nUsed by mounted falconers to recall their birds.\r\nBrass, engraved with verses on hawking.\r\nPERSIAN; 17th century","date":{"text":"Used until 10/2002","earliest":null,"latest":"2002-10-31"}}],"partNumbers":["1060-1869"],"accessionNumberNum":"1060","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1869,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2017KJ6879","2019LR1691","2019LP6442","2019LU4030"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-08","recordCreationDate":"2005-02-24","availableToBook":false}}