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Tabouret
Tile from a Frieze
Ewer
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This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 451
This capital, carved of soft alabaster, demonstrates the emergence of the distinctive Beveled style from an earlier vegetal style in the early Abbasid period.
[ Eustache de Lorey, Paris, until 1936; sold to MMA]
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