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The Concourse of the BirdsThe manuscript from which this painting comes was produced in 1483 at the Timurid court of Sultan Husayn Baycara at Herat. It contains four illustrations that may or may not be by the hand of Bihzad, the most famous artist of that era, but represent his innovative, perfectionist style
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Textile FragmentThe royal textile factories of al-Andalus were famous throughout the medieval world in a period when luxury textiles constituted one of the most valuable possessions in a ruler’s treasury as well as in the trousseaux of wealthy brides
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Karl Anton Prinz von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen(inv. no. 5236); Baron Robert von Hirsch, Frankfurt and Basel (until 1977); his sale, Sotheby’s, London(22 June 1978, lot 267); [ Michael Ward, New York (sold 1996)]
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Gold NecklaceThe striking way in which this piece, with its circular stone-set gold elements surrounded by small pearls, is stylistically reminiscent of the miniature of the zenana (harem) scene in the Met (30
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From the chapel of Château-de-Bouvreuil, Rouen (destroyed late 16th century; glass installed in the chapel of a building constructed on the same site (late 17th century–early 19th century); [ Art market, rue Saint-Remain, Rouen (sold 1905)] ; Albert Gorge, Rouen (1905–sold shortly after 1910) ; [ Bacri Frères, Paris (acquired shortly after 1910–sold before 1935)] ; [ Michel Acézat Paris, 1878–1944 (acquired before 1935–until 1944)] ; his posthumous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris (November 24-25, 1969, no
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