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Bronze doors in the mosque-mausoleum of Sultan al-Muayyad (reigned 1412-1421). The doors belonged originally to the madrasa of Sultan Hasan (02-01-01/32) but were removed to the al-Muayyad-mosque in the 15th century.
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Bronze doors in the mosque-mausoleum of Sultan al-Muayyad (reigned 1412...

Bronze doors in the mosque-mausoleum of Sultan al-Muayyad (reigned 1412-1421). The doors belonged originally to the madrasa of Sultan Hasan (02-01-01/32) but were removed to the al-Muayyad-mosque in the 15th century.
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Bronze doors in the mosque-mausoleum of Sultan al-Muayyad (reigned 1412...

Mihrab and Minbar in the mosque of Ahmad al-Burdayni. Begun by the religious Shafi-scholar Burdayni,it was finished by a rich merchant in 1694. Marble panels, marble- and mosaic arcading, marble roundels. The minbar is of cedar-wood. 1616-1629,1694.
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Mihrab and Minbar in the mosque of Ahmad al-Burdayni. Begun by the religious S...

Large slab of Turkish ceramic tiles decorated with a scene representing the Kaaba. 1668 See also: 02-01-02/1, 02-01-02/20.
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Large slab of Turkish ceramic tiles decorated with a scene representin...

Square tile,painted in cobalt and black under a transparent glaze. From the shrine of Sayyida Nafisa, Cairo. Tile is signed in the corners by its maker, Ibn Ghaybi Taurisi. 15th 43 x 43 cm Inv. 2077
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Square tile,painted in cobalt and black under a transparent glaze. From...

Window screen (mashrabiyya) of turned wood, showing a minbar (pulpit) and a mosque-lamp. Mamluk period. mid-14th. From the mosque of sultan Hasan,Cairo. Wood, 142 x 152 cm Inv. 526
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Window screen (mashrabiyya) of turned wood, showing a minbar (pulpit) and a...

Stucco panel from the earliest phase of Samarra plaster decoration; the design is deeply undercut into the plaster by hand and shows naturalistic flower designs. Samarra, 9th, period of the 3rd Hegira. Inv. 13849
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Stucco panel from the earliest phase of Samarra plaster decoration; the...

Stucco panel from the second phase of Samarra,Iraq, plaster decoration; the patterns become less deep and more abstract, as the demand for wall decoration rises with the building of mosques. Samarra, 9th, period of the 3rd Hegira. Inv. 13849
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Stucco panel from the second phase of Samarra,Iraq, plaster decoration; the...

Stucco panel from the third phase of Samarra plaster decoration; the abstract patterns are no longer cut into the plaster, but molded to meet the increasing demand for plaster wall decoraion. Samarra, 9th, period of the 3rd Hegira. Inv. 13849
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Stucco panel from the third phase of Samarra plaster decoration; the...

Door panel of teak wood, showing two horses-heads among arabesques. Fatimid period, 11th Wood, 33 x 21,5 cm Inv. 3391
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Door panel of teak wood, showing two horses-heads among arabesques....

Mosque lantern, Mamluk, late 15th Thin gold plates on a silver core, H:123 cm Inv. 383
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Mosque lantern, Mamluk, late 15th Thin gold plates on a si...

Brass candlestick, one of a pair, with the name of sultan Qaytbay; made especially to be presented by the sultan to the mosque in Mecca in 1482. Brass,H: 45 cm Inv. 4297
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Brass candlestick, one of a pair, with the name of sultan Qaytbay; made esp...