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Armenian Marriage Box with Metalwork & Hexagram
Ref: 5777
A top drawer example of it’s kind, made of heavy slabs of fragrant cedar wood, from the mountains and coast of the Eastern Mediterranean. Splendid patina to the exterior with it’s aged decorative metalwork and to the interior a rare folk painted detail of organic forms and in the centre a six-pointed star or hexagram, this tells us that it is an Armenian marriage chest, long before the six-point star was adopted as the symbol of Judaism it was an important and meaningful symbol in Armenian culture, and with cosmic meanings, it appears frequently on Armenian medieval tombs and architecture, and also on artefacts that go back to the third millennia, a time when the Armenians had already developed an understanding of astronomy and celestial mathematics.
Anatolia early 19th cent
H: 42cm (16.5in)
W: 86cm (33.9in)
D: 44cm (17.3in)
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