page_title: Edmund de Unger
section_title: Metalwork
hierarchical_section_title: Edmund de Unger / Keir Collection / Metalwork
caption_attribution_description: English: Detail of bronze display dish, inlaid with silver with figures of winged sphinxes, late 13th century from Iraq, Keir Collection, now in the Pergamon Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin Note: DanieleCivello very kind changed the CC licensing of this image after a private request from me. The image is slightly cropped to remove a small watermark.
context_page_description: Edmund Robert Anthony de Unger was a Hungarian-born property developer and art collector. In London he built up the Keir Collection, one of the greatest post-war collections of Islamic art, bequeathed in 2008 to the Pergamon Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin. The arrangement for the museum to curate the collection came to an end in July 2012. The collection is now hosted by the Dallas Museum of Art as of May 2014 for a 15-year renewable loan.
context_section_description: "I believe that no collection of Islamic art can be complete without metalwork [...] It tells us a great deal about the art of Islam, the inscriptions found on the metalware contributing significantly to the history of the subject. I recognize in Islamic metalwork that intrinsic quality which is the result of first-class workmanship."
  The creation of finely wrought metalware, in gold, silver and copper alloys, was from the outset one of the most highly developed skills in Islamic art. The artefacts were produced for the whole range of society from the courtly elite to the merchant class. The Keir Collection reflects this diversity. Amongst the most precious objects are enamel and gold jewelry and engraved silverware; other household objects include engraved bronze ewers, jugs, perfume bottles, aquamaniles, incense burners and candlesticks from all over the Islamic world, from the 8th to the 16th century.
caption: Detail of winged sphinxes and other motifs on a late 13C bowl of bronze, with silver inlay, from Iraq (click for detail)
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