Classification: Textiles-Woven-Brocade Credit Line: Gift of Inger G. and William B.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin vol. 32, section II (1937). p. 19, ill. fig. 27 (b/
Sigismond Bardac, Paris (from at least 1903); [possibly Dikran G. Kelekian (American, born Turkey), Cairo, Paris, and New York (sold ca. 1909)]; George and Florence Blumenthal, Paris and NY (ca. 1909? or least 1927-1941)
Husband, Timothy B.
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William B. Gourley, Clifton, New Jersey Louis C.
Gómez-Moreno, Carmen, and Timothy B. Husband.
Throughout the ages, public sculptures have served as didactic tools, offering moral, patriotic, and cultural instruction. Symbols of pride, they have proclaimed cities as tastemakers in civic and aesthetic matters.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens collaborated with Stanford White ( 28.101); ( 39.65.54a,b)
Among hanging lighting devices, one type of lamp — globular in shape with a flaring neck — was especially common in Seljuq times. They are commonly called mosque lamps in reference to the enameled lanterns from Mamluk mosques in Cairo, which often include Qur’anic inscriptions
(b/w). Carboni, Stefano, David Whitehouse, Robert H.
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son of the goddess Athena, and the Thracian king Eumolpos (identified as Riace B)
PanelOne of the most fascinating and mysterious objects of early Islamic art in the Museum’s collection, this wood panel was acquired in 1937 from the dealer Paul Mallon in Paris
I. 5684 a-b); Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo (nos. 9518, 11636); Museum of Archaeology
B[ryson]. B[urroughs]. "A Fifteeth-Century Italian Panel."
