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Door Panel with Lotus and Palmettes
Not on view
The highly stylized lotuses and palmettes on the panel are carved with slanted, beveled edges that unite the forms and the background into a continuous whole. This beveled style, widely used at Samarra, spread throughout the Islamic world.
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